"I've been waiting thirty-five years, since I was a young reporter at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, for someone to do justice to Bobby Kennedy's milepost trip across eastern Kentucky. Matthew Algeo's new book makes it worth that wait." Larry Tye, author of Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon "a powerful story, skillfully told." Booklist "a concise historical analysis through which stories of Appalachia's coal country, and its residents' poverty, make clear the challenges of the past and the legacies that shaped a more hopeful future." Foreword Reviews "This face-paced narrative, focusing less on Kennedy and more on local people, will find audiences among those who enjoyed J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy and Tony Horowitz's Spying on the South ." Library Journal
