Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning - Alan Maimon
Category: Political
Tags: Political, History
From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia, and on the soul of a shaken nation . . ., 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 like a foreign correspondent would., And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Timess 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 epidemica place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day., While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everythingand nothingyou have
