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Page Count: 272
Printing Date: July 30, 2000
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One of the greatest internal migrations in American history has been the movement of the people of Appalachia to a variety of rural and urban destinations all over the country --- wherever economic opportunity beckoned, from the industrial Midwest to the timber empires of the Pacific Northwest. This movement (about five million in the 1950s alone) has taken place in several waves throughout the twentieth century, and continues to this day. Appalachian Odyssey provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the impact of this phenomenon on both the Appalachian region and the country as a whole. Scholars from a variety of social science disciplines bring their perspectives to this volume in an examination of the historical, political, social, economic, and cultural impact of a talented group often derided as 'hillbillies'. Appalachian Odyssey provides a much-needed corrective to this bias, and a deeper understanding of a people who have significantly influenced the American story.
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Morals & Ethics in Journalism., October 30, 2006
Reviewer: Betty Burks (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews
He claims to be a historian, but Jack Neely is a phony using all of his historical 'facts' based on the fiction book, Sutree. If he made this trip with his brother and "reported" their sights, take it as a grain of salt as he makes up imaginary things to sound erudite. Reporters need to strive for the professionalism of major newspapers in large cities to create "mainstream" or "conventional" points of view. This is what media power is really about. At a subsequent meeting to be told about the design for a proposed "passenger friendly" center to wait in out of the elements, only one member of the committee attended; but a city official told the television reporter that the bus station would be 'airport quality.' I have not been in McGhee Tyson but, if it's as primitive as this 'biased' design for the transit center, it's proof of the backwardness of this town -- and the gullibility of the press.
Neely's writings are all fiction and opinion, none of it fact in any of the anthologies of Knoxville writers. They are all creative and not historical in any way. He does not read old newspapers, doesn't know how. He is only a studge for Metro Pulse. He pretends to be a historical writer about this town, but there is nothing good or worthwhile in anything he writes now or has written in the past. It is all from his imagination and a book of fiction he calls his Bible.
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