Jeff Biggers, Author . Shoemaker & Hoard $26 (238p) ISBN 978-1-59376-031-1
In this pleasing if imperfect study, Biggers (editor of No Lonesome Road
) argues that the roots of American politics and culture are found not in Philadelphia or New York, but in Appalachia. The North Carolina Patriots, who declared themselves free
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Jeff Biggers, Author . Nation $26.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-56858-421-8
Journalist Biggers tallies up the human cost of more than two centuries of coal mining in southern Illinois in an intimate, informative yet uneven book. Part historical narrative, part family memoir, part pastoral paean, and part jeremiad against...
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Jeff Biggers. Nation, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56858-702-8
Arizona’s nativist Right gets pilloried in this feisty, very partisan chronicle of the state’s immigration politics. Journalist Biggers (The United States of Appalachia) investigates controversial initiatives by Arizona’s Tea Party–influenced state...
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Jeff Biggers. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-06512-4
Biggers (State Out of the Union), an American Book Award–winning journalist, resurrects the astonishing life story of the pioneering muckraker Anne Royall (1769–1854). Though now little known, Royall was a groundbreaking traveler, agitator, and...
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Jeff Biggers. Counterpoint, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64009-047-7
To make the case for resistance in the age of Trump, Biggers (The United States of Appalachia) traces U.S. opposition movements from pre-Revolutionary times to the present, drawing parallels between the tumultuous present and the early days of the...
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Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers. Melville House, $29.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-68589-145-9
Global peace struggles collide with intimate family drama in this thrillingly cinematic collaboration between The Fugitive director Davis and journalist Biggers (In Sardinia). During an archaeological dig in Alexander County, Ill., in which...
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