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Jeff Biggers is an award-winning historian, journalist, and playwright. He is the author of several books, has been long-listed for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, and is the recipient of the Delta Prize for Literature and David Brower Award for environmental reporting. He is the founder of mostra altro the Climate Narrative Project, an arts and advocacy initiative for schools and communities. Find out more at jeffbiggers.com. mostra meno

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No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems (2004) — A cura di — 10 copie

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Data di nascita
1963
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male

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A book about the author, Anne Royall, who is said to be the one who originated muckraking. Well researched and well written; the author includes a lot of quotes from Royall's writings, and they tell almost as much about her as her actual history. I read one of her books some time back, but didn't realize she was so well known in her time, nor that her trial and conviction as a "common scold" is considered the last witch trial in America. The author supplies a great many details about her life, but fails to give very many details about her trial. The title suggested this would pose a bigger portion of the book, and it was a disappointment not to hear more about it. Recommended; this author should be more well known in our time.… (altro)
 
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Devil_llama | 1 altra recensione | Dec 16, 2022 |
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
 
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fernandie | 1 altra recensione | Sep 15, 2022 |
I went into this book expecting a broader and shallower history, but instead the focus was on a few points in Appalachia that the author calls seminal for what the region would become. So: much more in depth and also earlier (primarily 18th century) than I had expected, but I think he pulled it off well. Probably the type of history I should have read while I lived in the South.
 
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jonerthon | 1 altra recensione | Jun 5, 2020 |
A surprising gem. I stumbled across this at the library. Having grown up on the edge of Appalachia in southwestern VA, it sounded intriguing, and it was.
 
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whg99 | 1 altra recensione | Apr 23, 2018 |

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