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Reckoning At Eagle Creek
Jeff Biggers
Nation Books
February 2010
On Sale: January 26, 2010
320 pages ISBN: 1568584210 EAN: 9781568584218 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark
amphitheatre ruins of his family’s nearly 200-year-old
hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of
the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern
Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his
own denied backwoods heritage, but also chronicles a dark
and missing chapter in the American experience: the
historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia, serving
as an exposé of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.
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