Review of Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee, The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

The article presents a speech by David Walls of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, delivered at the annual conference of the Appalachian Studies Association held in Richmond, Kentucky on March 11, 2011. He discusses the 1976 symposiu . . .