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Monday, November 14, 2005

It's Not the Heat. It's the Timidity

Part of the pleasure of watching the other side lose elections ... the recriminations that follow. The losing Republican gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey, for example, Douglas R. Forrester, said yesterday in New Jersey's largest newspaper that his loss was all El Presidente's fault (coverage about, in the NYTimes).

// posted by J.W. Williamson @ 11/14/2005 10:32:00 AM

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.

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