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By KnC Books "kncbooks" (Inland Empire, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Reign of Law: A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields (Hardcover)
This book is commonly sold on a certain auction site by highlighting the subject matter of hemp (aka marijuana). This book is NOT about turn of the century drug culture.The protagonist of this story is a young man attending a religious college, questioning the values and morals that he was raised with, and learning about love and life in the process. James Lane Allen, who wrote other novels with Kentucky settings, chose to use the cycle of hemp crops to parallel human growth - neither the first nor last author to use such an analogy. At the time, hemp was an important source of fiber and the plant was grown commercially for that use, and Kentucky was the largest producing state. Hemp was an agricultural product like cotton or corn. The book aroused some readers' ire due to its controversial topic - the questioning of religious doctrine by a young college student. The story now is somewhat dated; that is in fact part of its charm. We gain a glimpse of the beliefs and mores of Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the changes that would soon contribute to the first World War. The first chapter does discuss the history of hemp agriculture in the United States and Kentucky, but that is not the thrust of the book in any way.
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THE century just past had not begun the race of its many-footed years when a neighborhood of Kentucky pioneers, settled throughout the green valleys of the silvery Elkhorn, built a church in the wilderness, and constituted themselves a worshipping association. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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THE century just past had not begun the race of its many-footed years when a neighborhood of Kentucky pioneers, settled throughout the green valleys of the silvery Elkhorn, built a church in the wilderness, and constituted themselves a worshipping association. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Apostolic Christianity, New England, Miss Gabriella, Civil War, United States New!
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- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 112
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 112
- Reign Of Law by James Allen in Front Matter
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on page 112
- Ellen Glasgow: A Biography by Susan Goodman on page 123
- Kentucky Bluegrass Country (Folklife in the South Series) by R. Gerald Alvey in Back Matter
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