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Book Synopsis Appalachian Reckoning by : Anthony Harkins
Download or read book Appalachian Reckoning written by Anthony Harkins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover
Book Synopsis A West Virginia Hillbilly's Story by : Naomi Parsons Meier Slusser
Download or read book A West Virginia Hillbilly's Story written by Naomi Parsons Meier Slusser and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Book Synopsis What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by : Elizabeth Catte
Download or read book What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia written by Elizabeth Catte and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign promises. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and problems of the region. The book analyzes trends in contemporary writing on Appalachia, presents a brief history of Appalachia with an eye toward unpacking Appalachian stereotypes, and provides examples of writing, art, and policy created by Appalachians as opposed to for Appalachians. The book offers a must-needed insider's perspective on the region.
Book Synopsis A Hillbilly’S Life by : Harold Lambert
Download or read book A Hillbilly’S Life written by Harold Lambert and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was blessed from God to be born in the hills of West Virginia and have traveled and lived around much of the entire world. My desire in this book is to share the good and bad times during my life with a focus on my childhood where I was raised on two different farms. I will relate my experiences to stories and text in Gods Holy Book. This book represents the first of many chapters of my life. The themes throughout these chapters testify of Gods love, grace, and mercy towards man. Our God is an awesome God!
Download or read book Hillbilly Hustle written by Wesley Browne and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first chapter appeared in different form in The Pikeville review"--Copyright page.
Book Synopsis West Virginia Hillbilly by : John G. Rexroad
Download or read book West Virginia Hillbilly written by John G. Rexroad and published by . This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the Rexroad family as they relate the history of their family to you through interesting stories, photos & family trees. The WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY depicts how much times have changed regarding cost of living, wars, family & lifestyles.
Book Synopsis A Hillbilly's Life by : Harold Lambert
Download or read book A Hillbilly's Life written by Harold Lambert and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Another Appalachia by : Neema Avashia
Download or read book Another Appalachia written by Neema Avashia and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines both the roots and the resonance of Neema Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, and gun culture"--
Book Synopsis Best of Hillbilly by : Jim F. Comstock
Download or read book Best of Hillbilly written by Jim F. Comstock and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Roots of a Hillbilly Family from WV - Cross Family - Civil War by : Stella Burnette Phelps
Download or read book Roots of a Hillbilly Family from WV - Cross Family - Civil War written by Stella Burnette Phelps and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Barton Howerton Sr Cross & Deborah Ann (Moore) Cross family from Virginia and living in Virginia/West Virginia during the Civil War. This couple had 7 sons and 1 grandson who fought in the Civil War and hundreds of grandchildren and greats grandchildren who fought in other wars. They were living in the Randolph/Barbour County part of Virginia and were living in this area when it became the state of West Virginia. This book is about the biography of the members of this family who have fought in the Civil War, World War I, World War II and some who have fought in the Korean and Vietnam War, some other members of this family with stories, ancestry data, photos and poems and is based on over 40 years of family tree research.
Book Synopsis Mountaineers Are Always Free by : Rosemary V. Hathaway
Download or read book Mountaineers Are Always Free written by Rosemary V. Hathaway and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The West Virginia University Mountaineer isn't just a mascot: it's a symbol of West Virginia history and identity that's embraced throughout the state. Folklorist Rosemary Hathaway explores the figure's early history as a backwoods trickster, its deployment in emerging mass media, and finally its long and sometimes conflicted career-beginning officially in 1937-as the symbol of West Virginia University"--
Download or read book Ramp Hollow written by Steven Stoll and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States—until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a “scramble for Appalachia” that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.
Book Synopsis Roots of a Hillbilly Family from West Virginia by : Stella Forinash
Download or read book Roots of a Hillbilly Family from West Virginia written by Stella Forinash and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 8 covers Vernie Shomo Phelps' family tree on her mom's (Stella Cross Shomo) side of the family. It starts out in the years of 1600's and covers many, many names including: Cross, Moore, Poling, Keller and many other names. We also include the royalty line in many different countries. As in our other "Roots of a Hillbilly Family from West Virginia" books, it includes photos and is in black and white to keep down printing cost. It covers 4 years of work on ancestry.com and even more years of work researching on the Internet, in libraries, writing to various family members and visiting them. We still have more work to do and more hints on ancestry.com. On the backs of each book, we include some personal family photos of the Robert I & Vernie B Shomo Phelps family. My husband, Ken, proof reads each book for me. On the back of this book, we did a special chapter about Stella Cross Shomo, her parents, husband and children. We then did a special chapter on Vernie Shomo Phelps and her family. The last 100 page of this book is a photo album and a special dedication to the author's family. Photos are worth a thousand words. Our family tree continues. Come along with us on this incredible journey. We have an amazing family on all family sides. We give special thanks to our Creator, the Holy Spirit, our lord and savior, Jesus Christ, angels which Almighty God, Jehovah provides to help us all while on earth, both heavenly and earthly and to all of God's team.
Download or read book RIP GOP written by Stanley B. Greenberg and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading pollster and adviser to America’s most important political figures explains why the Republicans will crash in 2020. For decades the GOP has seen itself in an uncompromising struggle against a New America that is increasingly secular, racially diverse, and fueled by immigration. It has fought non-traditional family structures, ripped huge holes in the social safety net, tried to stop women from being independent, and pitted aging rural Evangelicals against the younger, more dynamic cities. Since the 2010 election put the Tea Party in control of the GOP, the party has condemned America to years of fury, polarization and broken government. The election of Donald Trump enabled the Republicans to make things even worse. All seemed lost. But the Republicans have set themselves up for a shattering defeat. In RIP GOP, Stanley Greenberg argues that the 2016 election hurried the party’s imminent demise. Using amazing insights from his focus groups with real people and surprising revelations from his own polls, Greenberg shows why the GOP is losing its defining battle. He explores why the 2018 election, when the New America fought back, was no fluke. And he predicts that in 2020 the party of Lincoln will be left to the survivors, opening America up to a new era of renewal and progress.
Book Synopsis Albion's Seed by : David Hackett Fischer
Download or read book Albion's Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Book Synopsis Roots of a Hillbilly Family from West Virginia by : Stella Forinash
Download or read book Roots of a Hillbilly Family from West Virginia written by Stella Forinash and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 6 covers Robert I. Phelps family tree on his mom's family (Burnette Boyles Phelps). It starts out in the years of 1600's and covers many, many names including: Boyles, Adams, Hardin, Hoge, Marr, Fishbach, Waters, Wickliffe, Spring, Engel, Steinbrenner, Stream, Wolfe, Bressler, etc. We also include the royalty line in many different countries. My daughter has written a chapter about Jews and Israelites in this book. We include some information about the Sinclair (St Clare) family. There are some mysteries in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and in Salem, New Hampshire "American Stonehenge" exactly like Stonehenge in England. What is the connection of the Sinclair family and Christopher Columbus? We talk about some of this from ancestry and history books.As in our other "Roots of a Hillbilly Family from West Virginia" books, it includes photos and is in black and white to keep down printing cost. It covers 4 years of work on ancestry.com and even more years of work researching on the Internet, in libraries, writing to various family members and visiting them. We still have more work to do and more hints on ancestry.com. On the backs of each book, we include some personal family photos of the Robert I & Vernie B Shomo Phelps family. My husband, Ken, proof reads each book for me.
