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The Most They Ever Had

By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
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About this listen

 In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The mill had become almost a living thing, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers.

In these real-life stories, Rick Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill.

©2009 Rick Bragg (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Americas State & Local United States Alabama

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Critic reviews

"It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." ( The New York Times Book Review)
"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life." ( Publishers Weekly)
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