Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields: Child of the AppalachianCoalfields [Hardcover]

Hardcover: 832 pages
Publisher: West Virginia University Press; 1st Edition edition (May 1, 2005)
Language: English

Reviewer:

Child of the Appalachian Coalfields is a fine book. Robert C. Byrd has had a long and distinguished career, and it's very good that he could tell his story himself, before time marches on. This will be an important legacy for future historians -- don't we wish we had a similar tome from Henry Clay? Some in the national news media have been highly critical of Byrd, but they don't understand him and they don't understand West Virginia. This book, if read in the right quarters, would help explain both to those outside the state whose impressions are faulty.

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A lot of people who would judge Byrd harshly are those who have been overly influenced by the elite media and have very little historical knowledge of exactly how poor the Southern United States was for both blacks and whites in the 1930's, 1940's 1950's and 1960's. Even now, to some degree, the Southern United States is treated as 2nd Class to the rest of America. But Byrd did his part to try to move as much wealth to West Virginia as possible to the chagrin of the Northern Contolled Media & Northern political interest & to the scalawags and carpetbaggers elected in other Southern States.

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