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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 54 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Johnny Heller. |
| 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. Resisting the easy cliches, Maimon's Twilight in Hazard gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| 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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| Added Author |
Heller, Johnny.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666159196 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666159190 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14383170 |
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