Title: Pop journalism advocacy at its worst.
Product review: While Light's pictures are moving and brilliantly taken, he uses his talent to make a second rate piece of agitprop.This book would have been an accurate representation of coal mining in Appalachia in the 1920's, but it is grossly misrepresenting of this way of life as it exists today and it plays off some of the worst stereotypes of Appalachia including toothless hillbillies and Klansmen. Contemporary coal mining is dangerous work, and always will be, but mineworkers are well paid highly trained individuals who take pride in their ability to survive lean times.Anyone interested in Appalachia should forego this piece of garbage, get in a car and go see it for themselves.
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