John F. Day's stark description of life in the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky in the 1930s is a classic of Appalachian literature, "an eloquent preface," as Thomas D. Clark has written, to what became "a broader state and national concern about Appalachia." Published on the eve of the Second World War, Bloody Ground was greeted at first with acclaim-and, in some quarters, indignation-but then was almost forgotten as the nation's attention focused on the war. In the forty years that have passed since the writing of Bloody ...
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John F. Day's stark description of life in the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky in the 1930s is a classic of Appalachian literature, "an eloquent preface," as Thomas D. Clark has written, to what became "a broader state and national concern about Appalachia." Published on the eve of the Second World War, Bloody Ground was greeted at first with acclaim-and, in some quarters, indignation-but then was almost forgotten as the nation's attention focused on the war. In the forty years that have passed since the writing of Bloody Ground, dramatic changes have swept over Appalachia, but the dilemma that John Day described has not been resolved.
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Add this copy of Bloody Ground to cart. $23.80, good condition, Sold by HPB-Red rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by University Press of Kentucky.
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Add this copy of Bloody Ground Life in the Mountain Counties of Kentucky to cart. $49.50, good condition, Sold by Old Bag Lady Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sun City Center, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1941 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York.
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VG-/G+ Book B&W Photographs; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 324 pages; A slight white blotch on the top right black cover.; A dramatic picture of feuds, schools, snake, cults, churches, footwashings, hospitals, marriages, funerals, and moonshining. Clean and solid. Member of FABA (Fl Antiquarian Booksellers' Assoc). Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7265.
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Add this copy of Bloody Ground to cart. $95.22, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Univ Pr of Kentucky.
