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December, 2007
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REVIEWS

My Century in History
Memoirs

By Thomas D. Clark
(Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 393. Illustrations, index. $27.95.)

Thomas D. (for Dionysius, to Clark's intense regret) Clark was born in one of the poorest parts of Mississippi on Bastille Day 1902. He died near the date of his 102nd birthday in 2004. He spent his earliest days in the fields, and his youth along the rivers, at the hardest sort of work: on a dredgeboat. Intent on an education of some sort, he did attend high school (a major achievement in Mississippi at that time) and managed to enroll at "Ole Miss," in Oxford, itself not much better than a good high school at the time. He earned a Ph.D. at the new (literally risen from the pineland) Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and, in 1932, took a position at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, where he remained for most of the rest of his life. In the days of departmental satrapies that preceded the departmental democratization of the mid-1960s, Clark singlehandedly created at Kentucky a first-class gathering of scholar-teachers, similar to departments at North Carolina, Yale, Northwestern, and Iowa. . . .
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