{"product_id":"appalachian-reckoning-a-region-responds-to-hillbilly-elegy-paperback","title":"Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Harkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMeredith McCarroll\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 American Book Award winner, Walter \u0026amp; Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award \u003cbr\u003e Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about\u003ci\u003e Hillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region's future?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppalachian Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond\u003ci\u003e Hillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in \u003ci\u003eAppalachian Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, \u003ci\u003eAppalachian Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about\u003ci\u003e Hillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region's future?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppalachian Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond\u003ci\u003e Hillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in \u003ci\u003eAppalachian Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, \u003ci\u003eAppalachian Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Harkins is a professor of history at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he teaches courses in popular culture and twentieth-century United States history and American studies. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeredith McCarroll is the director of writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College, where she teaches courses in writing, American literature, and film. 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