Description: Hell's Not Far Off : Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left, Paperback by Howard, Josh, ISBN 1959000101, ISBN-13 9781959000105, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A biography of Bruce Crawford, a southwest Virginia journalist-writer of the radical tradition and one of the first to interpret Appalachian labor history. Hell’s Not Far Off is a grounded, politically engaged study of the Appalachian journalist and political critic Bruce Crawford, a scourge of coal and railway interests. Crawford fought injustices wherever he saw them at major risk to his own life and became an early interpreter of Appalachian labor history. His writings and actions from the 1920s to the 1960s helped shape southwest Virginia and West Virginia. Through Crawford’s Weekly, a newspaper active from 1920 to 1935, Crawford challenged the Ku Klux Klan, lynch mobs, and the private police forces of coal barons. The wounds received for these efforts were the closing of his paper and a bullet to his leg during a Harlan County strike in the 1930s. In his work after journalism, he led the West Virginia branch of the Federal Writers’ Project during the political standoff over the contents of the state’s official guid. In Hell’s Not Far Off, Josh Howard resurrects strands of a radical tradition centered especially on matters of labor, environment, and race, drawing attention to that tradition’s ongoing salience: “Present-day Appalachia’s fights were [Crawford’s], and his fights are still ours.”
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Book Title: Hell's Not Far Off : Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Hell's Not Far Off : Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left
Language: English
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Subject: Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Labor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Josh Howard
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
