Hell-Bent for Music

by Wade Hall

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Barry Bingham, Sr., was one of this country's most influential journalists. Under his half-century of leadership, the Louisville Courier-Journal became one of America's leading newspapers, as attested by six Pulitzer Prizes. In this illuminating oral history, Samuel Thomas weaves together excerpts from more than a dozen interviews with Bingham, along with selections from his writings and comments by his wife, Mary Caperton Bingham. Barry Bingham's influence was voiced principally through newspaper journalism, but, besides owning the Courier-Journal and its evening companion, the Louisville Times, the family enterprises included WHAS radio and television and Standard Gravure Corporation, which also produced...Read more
  • ISBN10 132259743X
  • ISBN13 9781322597430
  • Publish Date 1 January 2015 (first published 11 April 1996)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University Press of Kentucky
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 284
  • Language English