“Andrew Davis is a cinematic master, and Jeff Biggers is a brilliant scribe of wild places. Together, they have created a thriller that will keep you up all night.”
–Luis Urrea, NY Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene. 

"In Sardinia is an indispensable and necessary international guide. To discover a Sardinia still little known outside the national borders and to reveal its multiform riches and diversity."

"Jeff Biggers, a gifted writer who approaches history as expansively as Howard Zinn and as passionately as Eduardo Galeano, finds resistance everywhere. Powerful, urgent essays."--Jeff Chang, author of We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation

"This book is vitally important reading for all Americans." —Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon 

"Major environmentalist and activist Jeff Biggers turns to 18th century America to bring us a surprising story from the mountains of western Virginia―the most interesting woman that I, for one, had never heard of, despite my own Appalachian heritage. The muckraking and myth-making journalist, travel writer, and social critic Anne Royall was called both 'heroine' and 'common scold' in her time; her story holds reverberations and implications for us today."―Lee Smith, Dimestore

"Provocative, witty and original, Damnatio Memoriae stages more than a clash over power between pretenders for the throne of emperor in Ancient Rome. Recovering the extraordinary legacy of Africans and Arabs in Ancient Rome and modern Europe, including the role of African-born Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, it brings to life the very characters who have been left off the stage for too long.”--Henry Louis Gates, Life Upon These Shores

“Jeff Biggers has the unblinking gaze of the honed journalist, a novelist’s sense of image and story, and a prophet’s cache of outrage. He stands in my very short list of American literary heroes. With his new book, Biggers shows us he can write anything–and do it well. His aim is true.”–Luis Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway, The Hummingbird’s Daughter.

"This is a world-shaking, belief-rattling, immensely important book. If you're an American, it is almost a patriotic duty to read it."—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
"Nobody writes about Appalachia like Jeff Biggers. His voice is a swirl of history and memory, of fact and analysis, of hillbilly wisdom and journalistic outrage. Reckoning at Eagle Creek is bigger and brawnier than a memoir or cultural chronicle—it’s a passionate howl from the dark heart of American coal country."—Jeff Goodell, author, Big Coal
“Jeff Biggers’s inspiring book should be a best seller immediately. It is a ‘how-to’ book—how to assert your fundamental rights and how to speak out in the manner of the American Revolution footsloggers, whose descendants they are. Read it and your faltering hopes will rise.” --Studs Terkel

“An astonishing sojourn.”–Booklist “

… numerous unforgettable characters, and situations that only a traveler of this ilk could manage. Biggers is the quintessential observer, with the eye and voice of a poet.”—San Antonio Express–News

“The brilliant trajectory of Don West’s career as a radical Southerner in the hard-scrabble decades of the 1930s and beyond still glows like the tail of a comet. He wrote sermons and poetry that crackled with vibrancy, exalting Jesus as the revolutionary savior of the downtrodden and exhorting the least of these to rise up and assert their God-given equality. No Lonesome Road rescues from obscurity much of Don West’s published writing, and his words still resonate with freshness and immediacy.”--John Egerton, author of Speak Now Against the Day