Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602610408
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Hundreds of Alabama fun facts at your fingertips. Perfect for school work or just learning about the state.
All about Alabama
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602610408
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Hundreds of Alabama fun facts at your fingertips. Perfect for school work or just learning about the state.
All about Alabama
Author: Laurel MillsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781581736182
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
All About Alabama People, Places, Facts, and Things Everyone Needs to Know
Author: Bama AllAll about Florida
Author: Laurel MillsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781581736175
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Hillbilly Elegy
Author: J. D. VancePublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062872257
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Sean of the South
Author: Sean DietrichPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781515019183
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The first volume of a collection of short stories by Sean Dietrich, a writer, humorist, and novelist, known for his commentary on life in the American South. His humor and short fiction appear in various publications throughout the Southeast.
Confectioners Journal
Author: Alabama School Journal
Author: Continental Marine
Author: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Author: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339466
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.