Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty - Hardcover

Kiffmeyer, Thomas

9780813125091: Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty

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ISBN 10: 081312509X ISBN 13: 9780813125091

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008

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""This work will do much to fill what I believe is a real vacuum in twentieth-century Appalachian historiography. Kiffmeyer tells a gripping, human story." -- Chad Berry, Appalachian Heritage" -- ""Reformers to Radicals provides a valuable contribution to Appalachian and American historiography. It is necessary reading for anyone interested in understanding modern Appalachia's struggle with indigence or the War on Poverty's inability to provide solid and lasting solutions for such a persistent and pervasive problem." -- Jinny Turman-Deal, contributor to West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader" -- ""Reformers to Radicals address the many factors that led to the demise of the Appalachian Volunteers in 1970, the most important being the massive repression by local, state, and national political leaders." -- Journal of Southern History" -- ""Both timely and long overdue...Reformers to Radicals is an impressive accomplishment documenting the history of the Appalachian Volunteers." -- Appalachian Journal" -- ""Reading this book, one is gripped by a sense of tragedy...Well researched and vigorously written, this book provides great insights into why the War on Poverty failed." -- Journal of American History" -- ""The treatment of the clash of cultures the War on Poverty brought to the mountains is the strongest aspect of the book...Kiffmeyer does a nice job fitting the story into the context of the sixties." -- William Clayson, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" -- ""His succinct, dynamic account of the Appalachian Volunteers highlights the multilayered, powerful challenges facing antipoverty warriors, both within and outside the mountains, and reveals yet another dimension of the unanticipated consequences of liberal reform during a tumultuous era in American history." -- John Matthew Glenn, Appalachian Heritage" -- ""Kiffmeyer deepens our understanding of Appalachia's history during the 1960s, when the region was on the front line of the War on Poverty. His succinct, dynamic account of the Appalachian Volunteers highlights the multilayered, powerful challenges facing antipoverty warriors both within and outside the mountains and reveals yet another dimension of the unanticipated consequences of liberal reform during a tumultuous era in American history." -- John Mathew Glenn, Author of Highlander: No Ordinary School" -- "Winner of the 2010 Kentucky Archives Month Certificate of Merit for Writing or Other Production." -- ""This well reasoned and meticulously documented work of scholarship should prove useful to southern historians, students of the Great Society era, and anyone interested in the dynamics of social reform movements." -- The Southeastern Librarian" -- ""[Kiffmeyer] places the federally funded Appalachian Volunteers, drawn from the ranks of college students, at the center of his story.... [he] offers a powerful indictment of the operation of the War on Poverty on the ground." -- American Historical Review" -- ""Ashmore and Kiffmeyer offer a powerful indictment of the operation of the War on Poverty on the ground, contribute to an understanding of public policy issues, and, in Ashmore's case, add to our knowledge of the civil rights movement after its glory years." -- American Historical Review" -- ""Kiffmeyer blames [the failure of the Appalachian Volunteers] on its paternalistic outsider mentality, which alienated every group the AV worked with, and the power of local elites. Recommended." -- Choice" -- ""As a detailed overview of a critically important but under-examined chapter in Appalachian history, Reformers to Radicals is a welcome contribution to the scholarship" -- Chad Montrie, North Carolina Historical Review" -- ""Reformers to Radicals provides a compelling case study of the political and social tensions that enveloped the United States in the 1960s. Kiffmeyer places AVs' story into the national narrative of a radical, oppositional consciousness emerging out of the idealism of the civil rights movement and the Great Society." -- Rob Weise, Associate Professor of History, Eastern Kentucky University" -- ""Thoroughly researched, well-written, and judicious in tone, the enduring contribution of Reformers to Radicals is in delineating the limits of liberal reformism in a region like Central Appalachia where inequality is so entrenched that only a thorough political restructuring will bring about democratic change." -- Ronald L. Lewis, Robbins Chair and Professor Emeritus, West Virginia University" --

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When westward expansion began in the early nineteenth century, the Jewish population of the United States was only 2,500. As Jewish immigration surged over the century between 1820 and 1920, Jews began to find homes in the Ohio River Valley. In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz chronicles the settlement and evolution of Jewish communities in small towns on both banks of the river -- towns such as East Liverpool and Portsmouth, Ohio, Wheeling, West Virginia, and Madison, Indiana. Though not large, these communities influenced American culture and history by helping to develop the Ohio River Valley while transforming Judaism into an American way of life. The Jewish experience and the regional experience reflected and reinforced each other. Jews shared regional consciousness and pride with their Gentile neighbors. The antebellum Ohio River Valley's identity as a cradle of bourgeois America fit very well with the middle-class aspirations and achievements of German Jewish immigrants in particular. In these small towns, Jewish citizens created networks of businesses and families that were part of a distinctive middle-class culture. As a minority group with a vital role in each community, Ohio Valley Jews fostered religious pluralism as their contributions to local culture, economy, and civic life countered the antisemitic sentiments of the period. Jewish Communities on the Ohio River offers enlightening case studies of the associations between Jewish communities in the big cities of the region, especially Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and the smaller river towns that shared an optimism about the Jewish future in America. Jews in these communities participated enthusiastically in ongoing dialogues concerning religious reform and unity, playing a crucial role in the development of American Judaism. The history of the Ohio River Valley includes the stories of German and East European Jewish immigrants in America, of the emergence of American Reform Judaism and the adaptation of tradition, and of small-town American Jewish culture. While relating specifically to the diversity of the Ohio River Valley, the stories of these towns illustrate themes that are central to the larger experience of Jews in America.

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