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...half a century earlier. In 1925, Tennessee's Butler Act (which was repealed in 1967) made it illegal to teach "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible." The Scopes "monkey trial" famously followed. In 1974, a clash erupted in Kanawha County, West Virginia, over the controversial writings of such authors as George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Allen Ginsberg. Opposition was so heated that some schools were firebombed with dynamite and Molotov cocktails...
They appear to get the message. "That sell you have, that's a good sell," says Grainger captain Billy Burkett, as his boat eases past the mouth of the Kanawha River. He wears a Hawaiian shirt and a faded tattoo of a bird on his arm. "You try and convert people, they'll just back away. But this little place here is our city and our town, and every city needs a parson, and you're ours...
...while Hersh tells a number of stories about money being handed around--all of them interesting, some of them plausible--he never explains how he arrived at that whopping figure. Charles Peters, editor in chief of the Washington Monthly, who chaired the Kennedy campaign in West Virginia's Kanawha County, says he was interviewed five times for the book. He says that when he tried to argue that the $2 million figure made no sense, "Hersh just kept yelling, 'Bullshit, bullshit!' He just wasn't listening...
Residents of West Virginia's Kanawha Valley complain about the putrid smell that sometimes hangs over the area, comparing it to the odor of dead rats and rotten cabbage. But to many locals the sulfurous aromas spewing from a dozen plants spread along a 30-mile section known locally as Chemical Valley are still "the smell of meat and potatoes." That is because these factories pay the wages of 10,000 people in a state that suffers the highest unemployment rate in the nation (16%). Says Bob Harbert, 36, a cab driver in Nitro, W. Va. (named...
...West Virginia, socially conservative Charlestonians and coal miners in 1980 elected to Congress Republican Mick Staton, who had won local fame by leading a fight to remove textbooks that he considered unpatriotic or too sexually explicit from Kanawha County public schools. Campaigning for reelection, Staton told constituents this year that he felt he had been "raised up by God" to lead them. The voters disagreed; heavy unemployment reminded them of their traditional economic liberalism. They elected Democrat Bob Wise, a populist lawyer and state senator...