Twilight in Hazard : an Appalachian reckoning / Alan Maimon.
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.
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- ISBN: 9781612198859
- ISBN: 1612198856
- Physical Description: 294 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Brooklyn : Melville House, 2021.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Hazard (Ky.) > Social life and customs. Hazard (Ky.) > History. Appalachian Region, Southern > Social life and customs. Appalachian Region, Southern > History. |
Genre: | Instructional and educational works. |
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