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The United States of Appalachia
Jeff Biggers
How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
Shoemaker & Hoard
January 2006
288 pages ISBN: 1593760310 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Historical
The word Appalachia is seldom uttered in the same sentence
with the word enlightenment. More likely, images of the film
Deliverance, corncob chomping grannies, or bonafide
gun-toting hillbillies come to mind. However, in truth,
Appalachia has been a cradle of US freedom, independence,
and enlightenment, as well as a region of progressive social
history, literature, and music. The United States of Appalachia reveals to us how so many of
our nation’s basic freedoms and founding moments grew out of
the Appalachias. From the first declaration of independence
to the beginnings of folk music, literature, and poetry,
Jeff Biggers illuminates with humor, intelligence, and
clarity, the many reasons why we all need a lesson in
Appalachian history.
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