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BAD RESULTS TRUMP GOOD INTENTIONS 47 made it distressingly easy for the city’s notorious child killer to hide vic- tims’ bodies. And at the turn of the 21st century, there was a creeping po- litical irony to it all: The states that now form the core of conservative Republican power in America are slowly being strangled by one of the few thriving parts of Franklin Roo sevelt’s legacy. “Good, bad, or indifferent: no matter how we see it, kudzu has settled in and won’t be budged,” wrote Lembke in Despicable Species. “Roots in the earth, leaves to the sun, it will persist until the last trump. I’ve thought of comparing it to phenomena I find obnoxious, like the wild proliferation of pounding boom boxes or the unchecked spread of concrete lawn geese and decorative nylon banners, but no, there’s nothing faddish about the plant. It’s a force of nature, more on the order of azaleas and tobacco, country music, coon hunts, NASCAR races, and good old boys. It just plain is. Certainly, nothing obliges us to like it, but because we must live with it, the least painful way to come to terms with the doggone stuff may indeed be to see it as a heritage.” If you listen closely to Lembke’s words, though, you can hear the unambiguous snap of a briskly waving white fl ag. DID KUDZU KILL THE KUDZU KING? Channing Cope, an agricultural columnist for the Atlanta Constitution in the late 1930s and early 1940s, did everything he could to promote kudzu as a wondrous plant capable of solving any number of the problems that plagued the American South during that period. Part evangelist, part huckster, Cope labeled himself the “Kudzu King” and hailed the plant in print and on radio. He also established the Kudzu Club of America in the early 1940s, and its stated goal was to plant a million acres of kudzu in Georgia and 8 million acres of it across the South. What few people know, however, is that kudzu played out in Cope’s life like the demon in a novel by Stephen King, who has, in fact, used kudzu colonies in his fiction as the dark realm of monsters. At the height of his fame, Cope delivered a daily radio broadcast
OOPS 48 extolling the vine from the front porch of his house at Yellow River Plan- tation, near Atlanta. At the time he bought the farm, it “consisted of seven hundred eroded, unproductive acres,” according to author Janet Lembke. “But kudzu, which he set in to improve the soil and serve as pasturage for cattle, worked its thickety green magic almost overnight.” Cope refused to let county workers cut back the large kudzu patches on his property even after the U.S. government labeled the vine an ecological threat. In time, the vine overtook many of the farm’s trees and enclosed the road leading to the farmhouse, giving local teenagers private RECIPE FOR DISASTER Uncollared Greens Ingredients 1 prodigious plant 1 desperate situation Handful of true believers 1 well-intentioned government program Red flags Heat Humidity Sunshine Add plant to desperate situation. Bring true believers and government program to boil. Ignore red flags. Add heat, humidity, and sunshine. Let Mother Nature do the rest.
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CONTENTS v Lesson #4 BAD RESULTS TR
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Page 10 and 11: introduction THE JOY OF OOPS WHETHE
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Lesson #11 DUBIOUS NOTIONS SEDUCE E
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DUBIOUS NOTIONS 117 amazing ability
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DUBIOUS NOTIONS 123 If Only They’
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DUBIOUS NOTIONS 125 ACTUALLY, THE P
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UNDERSTAND THE MARKET 127 he raised
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UNDERSTAND THE MARKET 129 producers
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UNDERSTAND THE MARKET 131 Dolenz we
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UNDERSTAND THE MARKET 133 Consideri
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UNDERSTAND THE MARKET 135 I was sta
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Lesson #13 DESPERATION IS THE CRADL
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Lesson #14 SWEAT THE DETAILS the si
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SWEAT THE DETAILS 153 story reminde
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SWEAT THE DETAILS 155 Public hearin
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SWEAT THE DETAILS 157 book standing
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SWEAT THE DETAILS 159 rience of oth
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Lesson #15 CULTURAL NORMS RESIST RA
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CULTURAL NORMS RESIST RADICAL CHANG
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Lesson #16 THINK LONG TERM the abbr
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THINK LONG TERM 175 Spinks’s rags
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THINK LONG TERM 177 “Leon Spinks
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THINK LONG TERM 179 the second bout
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THINK LONG TERM 181 to that point h
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THINK LONG TERM 183 Knoxville recal
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KNOW “HELPFUL” FROM “ANNOYING
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Lesson #18 BEWARE THE PROFITING PRO
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DON’T MESS WITH SUCCESS 207 The t
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DON’T MESS WITH SUCCESS 209 Wrest
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DON’T MESS WITH SUCCESS 211 spot.
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DON’T MESS WITH SUCCESS 213 While
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DON’T MESS WITH SUCCESS 215 nothi
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Lesson #20 OCCASIONALLY LOOK UP FRO
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OCCASIONALLY LOOK UP 221 Of course,
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OCCASIONALLY LOOK UP 227 year resea
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OCCASIONALLY LOOK UP 229 AND STILL,
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THE BONUS CHAPTER 231 boilers explo
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THE BONUS CHAPTER 233 Can’t Stop
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The Chin Putter THE BONUS CHAPTER 2
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chapter notes OR, HOW WE LEARNED TH
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CHAPTER NOTES 239 Patton, Philip.
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CHAPTER NOTES 241 “The Pulitzer P
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CHAPTER NOTES 243 Petroski, Henry.
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CHAPTER NOTES 247 “Color by numbe
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CHAPTER NOTES 249 Banes, Sally. “
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CHAPTER NOTES 251 “Peter Lorre De
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CHAPTER NOTES 253 “Nonwovens Time
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CHAPTER NOTES 255 Mumford, Michael
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CHAPTER NOTES 265 “Spinks Banned
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CHAPTER NOTES 267 Luening, Erich.
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CHAPTER NOTES 269 Have Known About
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CHAPTER NOTES 271 McClintock, Mike.
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CHAPTER NOTES 273 “Chronology.”
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CHAPTER NOTES 275 Nashawaty, Chris.
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CHAPTER NOTES 277 “The Royal and
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Boone, Pat, 234 Bostick, Ed, 44 Boy
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Gore, Jerome S., 168 Gower, Stephen
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Murray, Jerome and Marilyn, 198 Mur
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Uncollared Greens, 48 Unimpressive
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvi Martha Kiger, t
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Also by Martin J. Smith and Patrick
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Copyright This is a work of fiction
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