Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
Written by Alan Maimon
Narrated by Johnny Heller
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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, bareknuckled 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.
Alan Maimon
ALAN MAIMON is the author of Shane Victorino: The Flyin’ Hawaiian and co-author of Nine Innings to Success (with Jim Palmer), The Mouth That Roared (with Dallas Green) and If You Love This Game (with Andre Dawson). He started his professional writing career as a news assistant and sportswriter in the Berlin bureau of the New York Times, and as a newspaper reporter, he was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
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