Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning by Alan Maimon, Johnny Heller, Tantor Audio
English | September 28, 2021 | ISBN: B09GCNSF95 | 7 hours and 54 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 217 Mb
English | September 28, 2021 | ISBN: B09GCNSF95 | 7 hours and 54 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 217 Mb
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.
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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