Twilight In Hazard

An Appalachian Reckoning

Twilight In Hazard
Alan Maimon
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5 Jul 2022 US
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9781612199979
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From the last major metropolitan newspaper reporter stationed in the Eastern Kentucky mountains, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work there, comes the story of how a convergence of events at the start of the new millennium continues to impact life in the region and the soul of the nation. "Most people who live in Louisville have never been to Eastern Kentucky and have no idea what' s happening there. We would want you to cover the area like a foreign correspondent would. " That' s what Alan Maimon' s editor at the the Louisville Courier-Journal told him in a job interview in the early days of the 21st century. When Maimon took the job and arrived in Hazard, Kentucky as the Journal' s regional bureau chief, he realized that he was reporting on a much bigger story than the county' s otherness. It was a region in the grip of ecological devastation, a man-made prescription pill epidemic, and where the aftermath of September 11th was taking an outsize toll. He witnessed first hand the enchroaching structural forces that would keep the region in poverty for decades to follow, even as many of those forces remain unacknowledged today. Through the stories he covered then, and follows up on today, Maimon--now forever linked to the region having married into a coal mining family--offers a broader view of the region than we' ve had in recent portrayals. With the bureau he ran now shuttered, he offers a unique perspective in an age when media outlets have cut back or eliminated coverage of the most distressed regions of the country.
"Twilight in Hazard gives the great FX show Justified a run for its money, and then some. A riveting read. " --Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls"Twilight in Hazard chronicles the decades of taking that Appalachia has weathered, but it also chronicles the strength and resiliency of the human spirit of those who have been left behind. This book is harrowing, angering, and, most importantly, true. " --Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home"In tight, compelling prose, Twilight in Hazard takes us directly to the heart of one of America' s most serious problems: the decline of local news. This book, with its indelible sense of place, may break your heart but it may also strengthen our collective resolve to find solutions to this crisis before it is entirely too late. " --Margaret Sullivan, media columnist, TheWashington Post and author of Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy "Alan Maimon is right to make ' An Appalachian Reckoning' the subtitle of this wise, compassionate book, where truly ' We gather in our memories and reckon up the cost. ' "--Si Kahn, civil rights, union, and community organizer, and cofounder of the Brookside Research Project, which supported striking UMWA coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky
Alan Maimon is an award-winning journalist and author. As a reporter with the Louisville Courier-Journal, he was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for a series about gaping holes in Kentucky' s justice system. His work for the Las Vegas Review-Journal on police shootings and the court system garnered national awards and acclaim. He started his professional writing career as a news assistant and reporter in the Berlin bureau of The New York Times. He attended Brown University and is a former Fulbright scholar. He lives in Princeton, NJ.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781612199979
Published: 5 Jul 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 357g
Pages: 304

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