Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

by Max Fraser

Book Overview

"The best book to explain the world J. D. Vance came from is Max Fraser's Hillbilly Highway."--Jessica Wilkerson, author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691191115
• ISBN13: 9780691191119
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"