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BARBARO, DON'T LET US DOWN.(Editorial)

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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20060520
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Byline: Mark Neikirk

Anthony Trollope, novelist and son of the famously acerbic Frances who found so much discomfort in the Cincinnati of the early 19th century, was himself less acerbic when writing about a jaunt to Kentucky's horse country. Then as now, trips to Kentucky's horse country seem to do that -- take the edge off.

His mother lived here from 1828 to 1830, then went home to England to write "Domestic Manners of the Americans." It has stood the test of time as the most hated book in town among those who prefer to imagine a more queenly past for the Queen City, ...

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