Nearly every person reading this site today will be familiar with The Bluegrass Conspiracy. You’re familiar with Kentucky corruption, the good old boy way of life and the standard operating procedure of the Commonwealth.
So you’re definitely going to want to snatch up a copy of Jim Higdon’s The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History – if just for the cover alone:
Here’s a teaser:
When Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in November 1980, Jack Smith’s days as US attorney were numbered. In 1981, the same year Harold Brown resigned in disgrace from the DEA, Smith stepped down when a Republican was appointed to his post. Yet, there for a period of time, Smith was in a position to evaluate the sorts of accusations that would follow Harold Brown to the grave. So, did Jack Smith think the drug-trafficking allegations against Brown and Thornton were credible?
“Well, of course, I don’t know for sure,” he later said. “I don’t have any facts to back that up, but that’s not what you asked. You asked if it was credible, and yeah, I’d say it’s credible.”
The book has nerves rattled in Frankfort and everybody is buzzing. We’ll be focusing on it over the next few months and will have a full review sometime soon.
Something tells us the book will be a hot ticket item in Kentucky.
Note: Pre-ordering will save $9 over retail. So it’s a good idea to be an early bird.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Wakeley Purple // Dec 14, 2011 at 9:33 am
It would have been nice of you to recommend supporting a local bookstore instead of sending people off to Amazon.
2 Wake // Dec 14, 2011 at 9:34 am
It sure would have been nice of you to support a local bookstore instead of sending people off to Amazon.
3 jake // Dec 14, 2011 at 9:38 am
You can’t pre-order the book at your local bookstore.
And there aren’t local bookstores in most areas of the state.
If you want to buy it in your local bookstore, you can do so in April.
I’ll be encouraging people to get the electronic version.
4 Jim Higdon // Dec 14, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I hope to do as much local bookstore promotion as I can with folks at Joseph Beth and Carmichael etc.
But like Jake said, those folks don’t do pre-orders like Amazon does, and pre-orders are important in terms of how the book gets marketed.
5 Wondering // Dec 14, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Having had a cousin who played a starring role in “Bluegrass Conspiracy,” I’ll definitely be reading this one.
6 James R. // Dec 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Cant wait to read this book. All I can say is Marion County has a colorful past!
7 FreeManInKy // Dec 19, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Local book stores? What the hell is that?
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