Kentucky Maverick: The Life and Adventures of Colonel George M. Chinn

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Colonel George M. Chinn’s (1902–1987) life story reads more like fiction than the biography of a Kentucky soldier. A smart and fun-loving character, Chinn attended Centre College and played at the famous “Praying Colonels” football team that won the 1921 national championship. After graduation, he returned to his home in Mercer County and partnered with munitions expert “Tunnel” Smith to dynamite a cliff. The resulting hole changed into Chinn’s Cave House―a diner that also functioned as an underground gambling operation all through Prohibition. He even served as Governor A. B. “Happy” Chandler’s bodyguard before joining the Marine Corps in 1943.

In Kentucky Maverick, Carlton Jackson details the life of a legendary and highly decorated Marine whose career spanned both world wars, the Korean War, and Vietnam. Chinn’s service paired a love of history with a special roughly genius: he documented the history of military technology at the same time as designing innovative weapons such as the M-19 automatic grenade launcher, which remains to be used within the armed forces lately. After leaving the Corps, Chinn leaned on his many connections to develop into the director of the Kentucky Historical Society.

Carlton Jackson’s entertaining biography weaves together outrageous tales of gunplay and politics at the same time as revealing Chinn’s humorousness, unbending will, and a sense of destiny that could only be fulfilled by a true twentieth-century Renaissance man.

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