Dr. Tracy Campbell, UK History
Professor and Co-Director of the UK Libraries Wendell H. Ford Public Policy
Research Center recently completed his fourth book, The Gateway Arch: A Biography.
Published by the Yale University Press in their Icons of America Series,
the book explores the colorful history of an American landmark.
“Tracy Campbell removes the luster from one of
the nation’s most admired and visited historical landmarks in this expose of
raw politics, profiteering, inflated egos, racism, and fraud. His surprising story compels us to think
carefully about what is gained and lost when urban places are remade t o commemorate
the past.” Andrew Hurley, author of Beyond Preservation: Using
Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
Dr. Campbell specializes in twentieth
century United States political and
social history. He has written three previous books: The Politics
of Despair:
Power and Resistance in the Tobacco
Wars (Kentucky, 1993); Short
of the Glory: The Fall and Redemption
of Edward F. Prichard, Jr..
(Kentucky, 1998), which was nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize; and Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an
American Political Tradition, 1742-2004
(Basic Books, 2005).
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