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Product details
Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: University Alabama Press; Reprint edition (March 28, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0817356835
ISBN-13: 978-0817356835
Product Dimensions:
5 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
230 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#246,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I worked in a Blue Bell plant for two summers in Red Bay, Alabama. And one summer in Belmont, Mississippi. But I was a "college boy", and just passing through the cotton mill life. Not really dedicated like the men and boys who lived it, who were proud to be part of the worthy tradition of exhausting work and unsafe working conditions. I was just passing through, on my way to an easier life, to a safer job-- to something that made me feel like a quitter because my hands became soft and my calluses went away. This book took me back there. To that town, to those times, to remembrances of those people. Rick's paen to the culture, the life, the pride and pain-- it made me emotional. I had to cry.
There stands a hundred or more silent mills across the south that, should you listen closely, echoes with the grinding of gears, the screeching of cog wheels and conveyor belts and pulleys, the growling of iron monsters ready to chew a careless arm or crush an unsuspecting hand. The people of these once noisy factories are the ghosts you'll see, their spirits still alive within the confines of the towering walls containing such noise. They are the people who Rick Bragg hail from, their veins coursing with the hearty blood of the Scotsman and Irish come over generations ago when the crystal minerals of the Appalachian mountain streams flowed all the way to the emerald Gulf shores, creating some of the whitest beaches ever. These people even now have a strength in their bodies and spirits like no other; they don't understand what quitting or giving up means, even when the thing they refuse to or can't quit is slowly killing them. These are my people too, and there isn't another of us who can tell there story as clearly, as eloquently, as Rick Bragg, all the while making me miss that red clay and the tall pines and the gentle breeze flowing through the hills of home, making me want some collards and corn bread and an afternoon of sitting on a porch shelling peas until late afternoon when the mill's whistle blows, signaling the end of a long day's shift. If you are of this ilk, read this book. And if you are not, but are curious about the ways of the South...read this book. Immerse yourself in it. It is most worthy.
Although he did not, Rick Bragg said his older brother, Sam, worked in the cotton mill. So did mine. For a long time, until he finally had to quit school, my brother would leave school early each day and walk to the cotton mill where he worked the 3 to 11 shift; then, walk home just to repeat the process the next day. I'm so thankful for my brother's sacrifice because, like Rick's, "he gave me a running start away from it all." Like so many, for my widowed mother and three children, the mill meant survival (but just that) during the Great Depression and, in The Most They Ever Had, Rick Bragg tells the mill workers' stories as only the master can.I suppose I have read just about all of Rick Bragg's books ... the bestsellers, of course, starting with All Over But The Shoutin' but also the introduction to Wooden Churches, the newspaper feature articles from Somebody Told Me (those are great), even samples in Stories From The Blue Moon Cafe, put together by his friend, Sonny Brewer. In all his writing, Rick Bragg tells the stories of people -- some of whom are like those you know, some you might not want to know, but, gawd, they are all REAL -- just ordinary people until their story is told by this gifted storyteller.
Rick Bragg has a magical way of putting words together and this book is no exception. This is a tribute to the lives of textile mill workers in Bragg's native Appalachian Alabama. As with Bragg's other books about his home, his account leaves the reader with feelings of both joy and grief for thosebrave, often doomed people, mixed with anger about the inhuman conditions they endured in order to simply put food on the table and provide a better life for their children. The book has a fairly narrow focus and probably holds more interest for regional or social historians, nevertheless is an enlightening story about an important part of life in industrial America.
Rick Bragg is a contemporary John Steinbeck. His writing reveals not only what the hard-working and under-represented people of northern Alabama have to say, but also why they say it. That has been true in both of the other Rick Bragg books I have read (Ava's Man and All Over But the Shoutin'). One of the themes of his writing seems to be to give voice to those who never had the luxury of enough time or enough resources (or both) to write about what links them to the rest of the human race. Reading his books is both illuminating, for we are so much better off for having met these people, and also a little embarrassing: if it wasn't for Rick Bragg, would I ever know about Ava, or her family, or Hootie? Would I ever really understand how the terror of the Korean War, the "forgotten war", could have led an otherwise decent man to such a painful, and short, life? His writing also demonstrates that the reason more good and decent people have not had their stories shared with a wider audience is not that they don't exist but that the rest of us are too busy with own narratives to bother paying attention to theirs. Shame on us.
Rick Bragg is one of my favorite authors. I found this book bittersweet. The real, true life stories of rural Alabamians who toiled in the dangerous, dirty and low paying textile mills. These were proud, hard working people who came largely out of the hills to work and try to give their children a better life. A hardscrabble life, filled with injuries and lung disease from breathing in the cotton of the mills. The Jacksonville Alabama mill, one of the last, closed in 2001. Bragg once again had the magic touch. He is a poignant chronicler of Southern life....
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