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Twilight in Hazard, an Appalachian reckoning, Alan Maimon

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Twilight in Hazard

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Alan Maimon

an Appalachian reckoning

When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region "as a foreign correspondent would." And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky, fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times's 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. While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bare-knuckled 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. Resisting the easy cliches, Maimon's Twilight in Hazard gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting

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