Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Rural, Political Science, Politics, Labour & Industrial Relations, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | G. C. Jones | ISBN: | 9780813143507 |
| Publisher: | The University Press of Kentucky | Publication: | July 18, 2013 |
| Imprint: | The University Press of Kentucky | Language: | English |
| Author: | G. C. Jones |
| ISBN: | 9780813143507 |
| Publisher: | The University Press of Kentucky |
| Publication: | July 18, 2013 |
| Imprint: | The University Press of Kentucky |
| Language: | English |
G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan," and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan," and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
