{"product_id":"yesterday-today-life-in-the-ozarks-paperback","title":"Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine S. Barker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineers-through the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson, and others-was a comfort and fascination to many Americans in the early twentieth century. Disillusioned with the modernity they felt had contributed to the Great Depression, middle-class Americans admired the Ozarkers' apparently simple way of life, which they saw as an alternative to an increasingly urban and industrial America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Catherine S. Barker's 1941 book \u003ci\u003eYesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks\u003c\/i\u003e sought to illuminate another side of these \"remnants of eighteenth-century life and culture\" poverty and despair. Drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the backwoods of the Ozarks in the 1930s, Barker described the mountaineers as \"lovable and pathetic and needy and self-satisfied and valiant,\" declaring that the virtuous and independent people of the hills deserved a better way and a more abundant life. Barker was also convinced that there were just as many contemptible facets of life in the Ozarks that needed to be replaced as there were virtues that needed to be preserved. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This reprinting of \u003ci\u003eYesterday Today\u003c\/i\u003e-edited and introduced by historian J. Blake Perkins-situates this account among the Great Depression-era chronicles of the Ozarks.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine S. Barker (1901-1961), a native of the Midwest, lived in Batesville, Arkansas, for eleven years before relocating to Salt Lake City, Utah. She was an employee of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the Ozarks in 1933 and 1934. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e J. Blake Perkins, an Ozarks native, is assistant professor and chair of history and political science at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47412779647154,"sku":"9781682261248","price":31.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a6bff8478ed232d2e841a62c3b490314.webp?v=1778329790","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/yesterday-today-life-in-the-ozarks-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}