King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction

The hillbilly hero is an American archetype. Living a hardscrabble life in the mountains of the South, he turns to making moonshine in a homemade still, hidden from the prying eyes of the revenuers--the federal agents who pursue him because he doesn't pay taxes. In reality a lawbreaker, in our mythology the moonshiner is the hero who fights valiantly to eke out a living while being unfairly dogged by the infernal feds. Developed and embellished through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572336404
• ISBN13: 9781572336407
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"