{"product_id":"twilight-in-hazard-an-appalachian-reckoning-9781612199979","title":"Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwilight in Hazard \u003c\/i\u003epaints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did...[Maimon] eviscerates Vance's bestseller with stiletto precision.\"\u003cb\u003e --Associated Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia, and on the soul of a shaken nation . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the \u003ci\u003eLouisville Courier-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e told him to cover the region \"like a foreign correspondent would.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times'\u003c\/i\u003es Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ecological devastation and a corporate-made opioid epidemic--a place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everything--and nothing--you have heard about the region is true. And far from being a foreign place, it is a region whose generations-long struggles are driven by quintessentially American forces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eResisting the easy cliches, Maimon's \u003ci\u003eTwilight in Hazard \u003c\/i\u003egives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. It is both a powerful chronicle of a young reporter's immersion in a place, and of his return years later--this time as the husband of a Harlan County coal miner's daughter--to find the area struggling with its identity and in the thrall of Trumpism as a political ideology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwilight in Hazard\u003c\/i\u003e refuses to mythologize Central Appalachia. It is a plea to move past the fixation on coal, and a reminder of the true costs to democracy when the media retreats from places of rural distress. It is an intimate portrait of a people staring down some of the most pernicious forces at work in America today while simultaneously being asked: \u003ci\u003eHow could you let this happen to yourselves?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwilight in Hazard\u003c\/i\u003e instead tells the more riveting, noirish, and sometimes bitingly humorous story of how we \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e let this happen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Melville House Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612199979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Alan Maimon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42148851187893,"sku":"9781612199979","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6af1123e-6249-43d6-a2c2-608d60ae7052.jpg?v=1653485661","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/twilight-in-hazard-an-appalachian-reckoning-9781612199979","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}