The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America by Jeff Biggers

The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America

Jeff Biggers

256 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative slow-paced
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Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Stereotypes of hillbillies and rednecks repeatedly appear in representations of the region...

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