Twilight in Hazard : an Appalachian reckoning /
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 N...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn :
Melville House,
[2021].
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| 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, bare knuckled 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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| Physical Description: | 294 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781612198859 1612198856 |