Book Review: The Ordeal of Appalachia - ProPublica - 0 views
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Bill Fulkerson on 02 Nov 17"Stoll offers the ideal complement. He has set out to tell the story of how the people of a sprawling region of our country - one of its most physically captivating and ecologically bountiful - went from enjoying a modest but self-sufficient existence as small-scale agrarians for much of the 18th and 19th centuries to a dreary dependency on the indulgence of coal barons or the alms of the government."
