Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America

by Jeff Young

Book Overview

A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry--and the communities left behind--in the midst of economic and environmental crisis.

Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at greater rates than anywhere else in the country. But what if Appalachia's troubles are just...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982148861
• ISBN13: 9781982148867
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: S&s/Simon Element
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"