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Appalachian Region Economic conditions Large print books Mountain people Kentucky Social conditions Sherpa (Nepalese people) Sherpa (Nepalese people) Social life and customs Social mobility United States Case studies Vance, J. D Vance, J. D Family Working class whites United States Biography Working class whites United States Social conditionsStoll, Steven
Summary: Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers, through crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 STOVance, J. D.
Summary: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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4 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 VANCE, J.D. VANVance, J. D.
Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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6 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANCE, J.D. VAN1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem VanceZuckerman, Peter.
Summary: Presents the stories of the sherpas who have acted as expert consultants to Westerners climbing the Himalayas, focusing in particular on Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, who survived when eleven other climbers died on K2 in August 2008.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012