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Talmage A. Stanley is the director of the Appalachian Center for Community Service and an associate professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy and Community Service at Emory & Henry College in Southwest Virginia.
<br />"Stanley sees in his family's lived experience a rich window into the middle-class aspirations and cultural understandings of not only mid-century Appalachia but also the nation as a whole. . . . Stanley's book is effective in conveying larger meanings from family history. <i>The Poco Field</i> brings the power of the personal to history and cultural studies, and the fields are all the richer for it."--<i>Appalachian Journal</i><br /> <p> </p> "A terrific contribution to an understudied topic in Appalachian studies: middle-class culture, society, and politics. Talmage A. Stanley's compassionate depiction of a sector often simply referred to as 'local elites' or the 'managerial class' exposes a tragedy akin to that of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's <i>Death of a Salesman.</i> His elaboration of the West Virginia coalfield experience as an archetypal form particular to the industrial capitalist social vision is brilliantly illuminated by fragments of his family archive."--Mary Hufford, editor of <i>Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage</i><br /> "Stanley's book is interesting, and it certainly makes a scholarly contribution to the literature. Anyone searching for a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Appalachia or middle-class life in the United States would do well to give it a read."--<i>The Journal of Southern History</i> "Stanley shows how ambition can be incompatible with moral behavior when profit is the bottom line and power is concentrated in one industry. His work stresses the importance of a 'citizenship of place' and gives examples of promising practices to expand, enrich, and enliven local relationships."--<i>Now & Then</i> "Stanley masterfully weaves issues of identity with the personal story of his grandparents. . . . his work requires scholars and students of the region to think of the modern history of Appalachia in a sophisticated and interdisciplinary way."--<i>West Virginia History</i><br /> "This genre-blending work combines biography, family and social history, ethnography, political economy, and personal observation to provide a penetrating examination of the implications of place-based practice on local and global citizenship. Through his family's own experiences, Talmage A. Stanley effectively argues that the natural, built, and social environments of a particular place can produce a way of life that is an honest response to the demands, limits, and promises of that place. The work is promising for use in Appalachian and American studies, community sociology, environmental studies, activism, and sustainable development."--Dwight B. Billings, coauthor of <i>The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia</i><br />
<br />"Stanley sees in his family's lived experience a rich window into the middle-class aspirations and cultural understandings of not only mid-century Appalachia but also the nation as a whole. . . . Stanley's book is effective in conveying larger meanings from family history. <i>The Poco Field</i> brings the power of the personal to history and cultural studies, and the fields are all the richer for it."--<i>Appalachian Journal</i><br /> <p> </p> "A terrific contribution to an understudied topic in Appalachian studies: middle-class culture, society, and politics. Talmage A. Stanley's compassionate depiction of a sector often simply referred to as 'local elites' or the 'managerial class' exposes a tragedy akin to that of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's <i>Death of a Salesman.</i> His elaboration of the West Virginia coalfield experience as an archetypal form particular to the industrial capitalist social vision is brilliantly illuminated by fragments of his family archive."--Mary Hufford, editor of <i>Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage</i><br /> "Stanley's book is interesting, and it certainly makes a scholarly contribution to the literature. Anyone searching for a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Appalachia or middle-class life in the United States would do well to give it a read."--<i>The Journal of Southern History</i> "Stanley shows how ambition can be incompatible with moral behavior when profit is the bottom line and power is concentrated in one industry. His work stresses the importance of a 'citizenship of place' and gives examples of promising practices to expand, enrich, and enliven local relationships."--<i>Now & Then</i> "Stanley masterfully weaves issues of identity with the personal story of his grandparents. . . . his work requires scholars and students of the region to think of the modern history of Appalachia in a sophisticated and interdisciplinary way."--<i>West Virginia History</i><br /> "This genre-blending work combines biography, family and social history, ethnography, political economy, and personal observation to provide a penetrating examination of the implications of place-based practice on local and global citizenship. Through his family's own experiences, Talmage A. Stanley effectively argues that the natural, built, and social environments of a particular place can produce a way of life that is an honest response to the demands, limits, and promises of that place. The work is promising for use in Appalachian and American studies, community sociology, environmental studies, activism, and sustainable development."--Dwight B. Billings, coauthor of <i>The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia</i><br />