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The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg (2011, Trade Paperback)

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In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on, in a mist of white air. The mill had become almost a living thing, rewarding the hardworking and careful with the best payday they ever had, but punishing the careless and clumsy, taking a finger, a hand, more. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and the mill workers served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story--not of bricks, steel, and cotton, but of the people who suffered it to live.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Alabama Press
ISBN-10
0817356835
ISBN-13
9780817356835
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99592966

Product Key Features

Book Title
Most They Ever Had
Author
Rick Bragg
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Regional Studies, General, Economic Conditions, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
168 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hd8039.T42u6416 2011
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"[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps." --New Orleans Times-Picayune, "[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps." -New Orleans Times-Picayune, Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." -- New York Times Book Review, "Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life." - Publishers Weekly, "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." - New York Times Book Review, â€œPulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life.â€� - Publishers Weekly, "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." -- New York Times Book Review, Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps." --New Orleans Times-Picayune, "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." -- New York Times Book Review, Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life." -- Publishers Weekly, Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." -- New York Times Book Review, Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps." --New Orleans Times-Picayune, â€œ[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think itâ€™s just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and youâ€™re either weeping or covered with goosebumps.â€� -New Orleans Times-Picayune, "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life." -- Publishers Weekly, Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life." -- Publishers Weekly
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-008980
Dewey Decimal
331.7/66700976163
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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by cejeeploverMay 11, 2021
Title perfect for this book.
Great book Bragg is my favorite author. This book is historical in respect to now gone cotton mills. Could be any town in the south,
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by wad14Dec 25, 2019
What can I say Rick Bragg is the ultimate story teller of southern culture!!!
The best writer telling stories of the south
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by brwea-1325Mar 25, 2022
Cotton mill family.
He has me hook on his books. I can relate to the people that he knows and me in jacksonville. It just makes me not want to set the book down until I read the whole book.
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