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"This spitfire collection of columns is filled with read-out-loud prose and laugh-out-loud satire." 

  -- Louisville Courier Journal


“ hilarious and penetrating” 

 --  Lexington Herald-Leader

 

Anne Shelby on politics. . .   

   "In heaven, Clay County Democrats, who have suffered so much in this life, will surely have a special place."  

religion . . .

   "And then I swear if that preacher didn't get up in the pulpit and preached for a solid forty-five minutes and never talked about a thing in the world but sodomy."

everyday life... 

   "So I told my husband that if we did not go somewhere, and I did not mean Wal-Mart, I was going to have to shoot myself or him one, I had not yet made my mind up which."

  

photo by Jamie Johnson

Can a

Democrat

Get into

Heaven? 

Politics, Religion & Other Things You Ain't Supposed to Talk About

 

short essays by Kentucky Press Association award-winning columnist Anne Shelby

with a foreword by Gurney Norman

and an afterword by Jamie Johnson

 

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or

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Can a

Democrat

Get into

Heaven?

the book

or

the CD version

abridged and read by the

author  

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