A delightfully wicked look at the badly behaved characters who shaped the history of Ohio through their deeds and misdeedsSpeaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Ohio History features fifteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of The Buckeye State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Idaho's past--both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through. They include:Dr. John Cook Bennett, who made numerous attempts to establish several medical colleges-- and funded his endeavors by (ironically) selling bogus medical diplomasJames Snook, an Olympic gold medalist whose sordid extramarital affair turned deadly--and resulted in lurid testimony that shocked the entire courtroom at the murder trialNancy Farrar, cruelly labeled "the ugliest girl ever known in Cincinnati," whose culpability for one man's murder was as unclear as her mental statusSusan Sawyer is the author of sixteen books, including Ohio's Remarkable Women, More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women, It Happened in Tennessee, and Myths and Mysteries of Tennessee (all by Globe Pequot). She is a former magazine editor and communications consultant and lives in the suburbs of Chattanooga, Tennessee.Front cover photos (clockwise from top): Martha Wise, Edythe Klumpp, and Stephen Wallace Dorsey (courtesy Library of Congress)Back cover photo: use Snook (if LDS Archives perm allows) or Bennett (pd).