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Appalachia

Petrushka

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4. I'd like to recommend two books I read years ago by Harry Caudill . . .

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 05:44 AM

Apr 2014

. . . 1) Watches of the Night; and 2) Night Comes to the Cumberlands.

Also: Here's a link to a yearlong series of Lexington Herald-Leader articles about how Harry Caudill "...captured the attention of presidents, but whose despair over the fate of Appalachia later led him to espouse disparaging and widely discredited views about the people of his home region."

http://www.kentucky.com/easternkentucky/

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