Sing One Song
AUTHOR: Helen Topping Mill
PUBLISHER: Appleton-Century-Crofts
DATE PUBLISHED: 1956
COVER: Hardcover with DJ, Illustrated end papers
PAGES: 307
CONDITION: Book is in good readable condition although
there is yellowing from age;also a water mark on
outside edge of book pages.
First blank inside page is inscribed with was probably the
original owners names and the date February 23,1957.
There is a dust jacket but it is torn and in three pieces.
The inside of cover is beautifully illustrated on front and
back of inside cover.
This book was bought at an estate sale in 1979.
NOTES from the flap – Kentucky, supposedly neutral, but really
a battleground where father opposed son and brother set himself against
brother—is the scene of Sing One Song. HHere the secret hostility that
seethed unchecked over the country is dramatized in the personal
conflicts of four neighboring families in a small town.
On one side are the banker, Hume Harper who stood to gain materially if
the Union won, and miserly, old Thom Findly, a fierce supporter of the
Union who had sworn that he would never forgive his son for taking arms
with the Confederacy.
On the other are young Tom Findly who used to meet Hume Harper’s daughter
secretly before he ran away to joijn Morgan’s Raiders in the South, and
old Judge Nesbitt, who had always held his neighbors’ respect until his
Southern sympathies were revealed…
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