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When
Carl Wedekind retired as Director of the Abolition Campaign in 2004 he told
close associates he wanted to write a book about his experiences as a lobbyist.
His first book, The Second Grave, had become a mainstay in the Kentucky
abolition campaign and he thought it fitting to follow it with a memoir.
What he has written of his life on the campaign trail is funny and sad and sometimes downright maddening. He tells of his travels throughout Kentucky with Kaye Gallagher, the campaign coordinator, speaking before civic groups of six to six hundred, dodging the barbs, and fending off religious fanatics.
We meet representatives and senators, good, bad, and awful, and sit in while the volunteer lobbyists try to alter Kentucky’s age-old culture of retribution.
KCADP is proud to publish this important look inside Kentucky’s legislature and urges all curious Kentuckians to get a copy and see for themselves.
POLITICS, RELIGION AND DEATH costs $19.94 (
$16.00 for book, $2.81 for shipping, plus $1.13 for 6% Kentucky sales tax).
Or send a check or money order for $19.94 directly to KCADP, P. O. Box 3092, Louisville KY 40201. A portion of sales through this website will go to further the abolition campaign.
"Wedekind’s story relates how he stumbled into the issue of the death penalty and emerged as one of our nation’s most sure-footed abolitionists. It’s a tale that should be required reading for anyone interested in how our vaunted, lofty-appearing system of lawmaking looks from the perspective of a small frog at the very bottom of a very murky pond," writes Doug Stern. To read his full review of Politics, Religion and Death, Memoir of a Lobbyist click here.
April 14, 2007 - "Wedekind's memoir as a Frankfort lobbyist against the death penalty is at once colloquial and eloquent, serious and downright humorous." Read the full Courier-Journal review of POLITICS, RELIGION, AND DEATH Memoir of a Lobbyist.
