| Description |
294 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region "like a foreign correspondent would." And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times's Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ecological devastation and a corporate-made opioid epidemic--a place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day. While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everything--and nothing--you have heard about the region is true. And far from being a foreign place, it is a region whose generations-long struggles are driven by quintessentially American forces. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Do us right -- The dams break -- King coal -- Life beyond the mines -- Killing season -- God and country -- Bad nerves -- Poison politics -- The day the news left town -- From the hood to the holler. |
| Subject |
Hazard (Ky.) -- Social life and customs.
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Hazard (Ky.) -- History.
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Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs.
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Appalachian Region, Southern -- History.
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Kentucky -- Hazard.
(OCoLC)fst01218108
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Southern Appalachian Region. (OCoLC)fst01864776
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| Genre/Form |
Instructional and educational works. (OCoLC)fst01919931
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Instructional and educational works.
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| ISBN |
9781612198859 (hardback) |
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1612198856 (hardback) |
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9781612198866 (ebook) |
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