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James Bailey has written a superb, creative and timely book whose
primary audience should be the U.S. Congress. Unfortu­nately, the
current members of Congress do not seem to possess the intellectual
wattage necessary to profit from it.

Ron
Rash writes stories that have as much impact as any I've read; those in this
collection often left me feeling as if I'd been kicked. Rash lives in and writes
about Appalachia, and his stories never leave that home, even when they're set
at the end of the civil war ("Lincolnites").