FREE: RARE BOOK -Yesterday's People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia - Paperback

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Rare used first edition good used condition. The pages are yellowed, and a name inscribed on first page. number stamped in book. 163 pages. copyright 1965. in fairly decent shape for a 50 year old book.

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Foreword by Harry Caudill.
A dated and somewhat biased look at Appalachian life in the 1950-1960's. Still used in college courses in later editions.

A minister serving the mountain people of West Virginia for thirteen years, Jack Weller set about to write the book that he himself needed and could not find when he first realized that he and his coworkers were accomplishing very little because they unwittingly were attempting ""to impose our own cultural assumptions on a people who did not share them."" In the simplest form and the plainest language possible, he has created an indispensable handbook for anyone who really hopes to understand and ultimately to help these charter members of the Other America.