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New Appalachian Books George Brosi Berry, Wendell. The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. 87 pages of text and 56 pages of photographs . Revised and expanded edition of a 1971 release. Trade paperback. $19.95. This book was written as part of a broad-based citizen effort to prevent Eastern Kentucky's Red River Gorge from being destroyed by a downstream dam. That citizen effort was victorious and the gorge is today threatened only by loggers and developers. The photographer was the late Ralph Eugene Meatyard. This edition includes an eloquent eulogy of Meatyard. This book illuminates and fulfills the world view of Wendell Berry, one of Kentucky's most accomplished authors, known for his dedication to living in harmony with the earth. Caudill, Harry M. Theirs Be the Power: The Moguls ofEastern Kentucky. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, no date. Second printing of a 1983 release. Hardback in dust jacket. $21.95. It was Wendell Berry who delivered the eulogy at the funeral service for Harry M. Caudill last December in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Berry praised Caudill as one who had not only focused national attention on the plight of Appalachia but had also taken a small piece of ravished land and worked for decades to reclaim it. Caudill died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This book, too, demonstrates Caudill's ability to combine the general with the particular. It takes the basic message of Night Comes to the Cumberlands, Caudill's tremendously influential 1963 overview of the region, and fills it out, showing how Eastern Kentucky George Brosi is the proprietor of a business called Appalachian Mountain Books and publishes a periodical by that same name twelve times a year. He sells books, both new and out-of-print, through the mail and brings a display of books for sale to regional events. His address is Appalachian Mountain Books, Route 2, Box 238, Whittier, North Carolina 28789. His phone number is 704-586-5319. 73 became controlled and ruled by irresponsible corporate power. The mountain storyteller and the crusader merge in this book as Caudill portrays for the reader the young Franklin Delano Roosevelt working in the Harlan, Kentucky, courthouse , "discovering" unsold mineral rights for his family's interests, and all the other fascinating pieces to the complex puzzle of how a land so rich in resources became so profoundly ripped off. Chamberlain, Diane. Secret Lives. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 406 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $19.95. "In Secret Lives Diane Chamberlain goes deep into the secret green heart of the Shenandoah to explore the genèses of two extraordinary women. Eden Swift Riley is hard to forget; her mother, Katherine Swift, is impossible. An engrossing journey."—Ann Rivers Siddons. This alternate selection of the Book-of-theMonth Club is the hard-cover debut of an award-winning paperback writer who practices psychotherapy in Alexandria, Virginia. Corbin, David Alan. Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, no date. 294 pages with index and bibliography, illustrated with photographs. Second printing of a 1981 release. Trade paperback. $12.95. "Marked by objectivity, clarity, and scholarship, this is one of the finest monographs ever written about the American labor movement. With a fine taste for language, an admirable mastery of his materials, and a keen insight, Corbin leads his readers through an especially frightening episode of United States domestic history." —Andre Kuczewski, Journal ofAmerican Culture. This book won the W. D. Weatherford Award of Berea College as the outstanding work about the region for its year. Dean, Harry. A Sheltered Life. Blacksburg, Virginia: Rowan Mountain Press, 1991. 37 pages. Staple-bound trade paperback. $5.00. This is the first poetry chapbook by a native of Cartersville, Georgia, who has made a career of teaching English in the region, primarily in Cleveland, Tennessee . This thoughtful poetry uses the images of everyday life in contemporary Southern Appalachia, and draws from them, quite naturally, seasoned wisdom. Gaventa, John. Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, no date. Sixteenth printing of a 1980 release. Trade paperback...

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