Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...

"Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally...

"A multigenerational saga set in the mountains of north Georgia, where the Burroughs family has been running shine, pot, and meth for decades. Rogue son Clayton Burroughs has become a local sheriff to keep what peace he can, until an ATF agent who's not quite what he seems throws a wrench into the works"--

The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers," known for prematurely-aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature...

The Cahulawassee River is soon to be destroyed, along with the beautiful country that surrounds it. Eager to see it before it's gone, adventurer and outdoor fanatic, Lewis, organizes a trip for himself and his three friends, Ed, Drew and Bobby. They will canoe their way from top to bottom in search of great adventure. What they don't know is that they are in for much more than they originally bargained. Two mountain men take Ed and Bobby hostage....

In The Clampetts meet Mrs. Drysdale, the blue blood begins boiling when the Hillbillies move into an exclusive Beverly Hills neighborhood. In Jethro goes back to school, get ready for some fancy ciphering when "Jethro goes back to school"--Fifth grade will never be the same. In Elly's first date, it's a Thanksgiving the Clampetts will never forget when Granny cooks up a mess of vittles for Sonny Drysdale. In Jed pays his income tax, laugh out loud...