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Appalachian Fall - Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America (Hardcover)
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Appalachian Fall - Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 690
You Save R57 (9%)
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A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal
industry--and the communities left behind--in the midst of economic
and environmental crisis. Despite fueling a century of American
progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left
behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and
environmental crises often at greater rates than anywhere else in
the country. But what if Appalachia's troubles are just a taste of
what the future holds for all of us? Appalachian Fall tells the
captivating true story of coal communities on the leading edge of
change. A group of local reporters known as the Ohio Valley
ReSource shares the real-world impact these changes have had on
what was once the heart and soul of America. Including stories
like: -The miners' strike in Harlan County after their company
suddenly went bankrupt, bouncing their paychecks -The farmers
tilling former mining ground for new cash crops like hemp -The
activists working to fight mountaintop removal and bring clean
energy jobs to the region -And the mothers mourning the loss of
their children to overdose and despair In the wake of the
controversial bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, Appalachian Fall
addresses what our country owes to a region that provided fuel for
a century and what it risks if it stands by watching as the region,
and its people, collapse.
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