Erik Reece is an American writer, the author of two books of nonfiction Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia and An American Gospel: On Family, History, and The Kingdom of God, and numerous essays and magazine articles, published in Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and Orion Magazine. He also maintains a blog “The Future We Want” for True/Slant.
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Rural America
We Need a Radical Reimagining of Our Economy to Prevent a Dystopian Future
Erik Reece