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Yesterday's People Life in Contemporary Appalachia
Yesterday's People Life in Contemporary Appalachia Author:Jack E. Weller In the foreward to this book, Harry M. Caudill, author of Night Comes to the Cumberlands, writes that Jack Weller's "analysis of the Appalachian mind and personality is likely to take its place as an analytical work comparable to The Minds of the South by W. J. Cash." This distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people, who for gener... more »ations have been isolated from mainstream of American culture, has often been romanticized, criticized, even derided, but rarely has it been understood. From his many years of living and working among them, Mr. Weller has gained an intimate insight into their minds and lives, and in this book, he describes with great sensitivity their ways of thinking and acting, which seem more familiar to another century than to our own.« less