Harvey Sloane: Former Mayor of Louisville

Harvey Sloane, former Mayor of Louisville, is an exemplary public servant whose career took him from Yale to Vietnam, from Kentucky to Washington, D.C. In his memoir Riding the Rails: My Unexpected Adventures in Medicine, City Hall and Public Service, Sloane takes the reader through his life as a surgeon and public health official, and his political career in his adopted state. Starting with an upset win to become Mayor of Louisville, his two terms coincided with turbulent times in the city, and his bids for governor and senate brought him in contact, good or ill, with the major political players in Kentucky’s recent history.