Life As I Have Known It Has Been Finger Lickin' Good

by Col. Harland Sanders

Colonel Sanders - sixth-grade dropout, farmhand (at age 12), army mule-tender, locomotive fireman, railroad section hand, aspiring lawyer, insurance salesman, ferryboat entrepreneur, Chamber of Commerce secretary, tire salesman, amateur obstetrician, unsuccessful political candidate, gas station operator, motel operator, restauranteur. Then, at the age of 65, a new Interstate highway snatched the traffic away from his corner, and Colonel Sanders was left with nothing but a Social Security check and a secret recipe for fried chicken. That's all he needed. In this rollicking but deeply moving account which stretches back to the late 19th century is a colorful glimpse of life among Kentucky mountain folk. Here, Colonel Sanders tells his own story, laced with his own dry humor and inimitable mountain grammar.