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    The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
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    The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story

    Written by Dean King

    Narrated by Dan Woren

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    "Marvelous....THE FEUD is popular history as it ought to be written." ---Wall Street Journal

    Nearly every American has heard of the Hatfields and the McCoys. The violent feud between these two families has become shorthand for fierce, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, until THE FEUD nobody has ever told the true story of this legendary clash in the heart of Appalachia.

    Drawing upon years of original research, including the discovery of previously lost and ignored evidence and interviews with surviving relatives of both families, Dean King has crafted a rip-roaring narrative packed with brutal murders, reckless affairs, mercenaries and detectives, and the long shadows of the Civil War. The result is an unvarnished and vastly entertaining work of history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMay 14, 2013
    ISBN9781619693272
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    The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
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    Dean King

    Dean King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books, including Skeletons on the Zahara, Unbound, Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed, and The Feud. His writing has appeared in Granta, Garden & Gun, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, New York magazine, and The New York Times. He is the chief storyteller in two History Channel documentaries and a producer of its series Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning. An internationally known speaker, King has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, ABC’s World News Tonight, PBS’s American Experience, BBC Radio, Arte TV France/Germany, and at TEDx. For more info, visit DeanHKing.com.

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    • 3/5
      Dean King's latest book is a thoroughly researched history of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. The book has merit in that it paints a vivid picture of late 19th century life along the West Virginia/Kentucky border, and the hatred that festered between the two families. The book, however, goes far beyond what the casual reader would want to know. His litany of names from the two families is something this reader did not enjoy slogging through. Unlike King's wonderfully written "Skeletons on the Zahara", which is a history that reads like a novel, "Feud" is ponderous and confusing. That being said, if you are a student of this era or perhaps have ties to the region, no doubt you will find more to like about this book.
    • 5/5
      I won this book from Goodreads Book Giveaway. I love history and the story of the Hatfields and the McCoys which many books have been written. Mr King does a great service to the story of these two feuding families by clarifying and clearing up many of the stories and legends that surround this infamous time in our history. It is amazing before the Civil War the families chose to marry between the families but after the Civil War grudges and perceived slights to one another began to occur. These slights and grudges turned into monumental battles leading to a horrific amount of bloodshed. Giving new meaning to pioneer and mountain justice leaving law enforcement no legs to stand on as each side executed one another with a few innocent and not so innocent bystanders caught in the cross hairs. Thank goodness for the provided family trees provided to keep some of the minor players straight on where they fell in the family trees. This story is far from a simple theft of a pig or that these people were considered hillbillies. Far from it the Hatfields had a timber operation and the McCoys ended up in the coal business. They knew how to work the political and judicial system for the most part it worked in the Hatfields favor. Only a handful of the participants ever saw jail time and only one was hung for his part in the deaths. Amazing historical research with the help of both families and historical records that have never before been seen that help dispel many of the myths and why they became so legendary. This book is a must have for Hatfield & McCoy reference and to the history of the Appalachia and its people. I know I will be adding a copy to my library.
    • 5/5
      Genuinely exciting, fast-moving, but also sad and tragic story of two rival clans who battled each other across the Tug Fork River between Kentucky and West Virginia for 3 decades of the late 19th century. If you can make sense of the torrent of names, many of them very similar, that will be hurled at you as you wade through the family history of the much intermarried clans, you will find this an enthralling read. The feud, which began with the murder of a Union sympathiser after the Civil War, but was really precipitated a decade later by, of all things, the disputed ownership of a pig, ostensibly involved the Hatfield family, based in West Virginia and led by Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and the McCoys, based in Kentucky and led by Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy, was much more complex than a simple dispute between families. It involved concepts of loyalty, honour and betrayal, that led people to forgo family ties in order to take one side or the other, or indeed, try to stop the feud altogether. King has taken a complicated story and made a fast-paced, exciting read. Despite the tangled family trees and webs of intrigue and mistrust, the story moves at a breakneck pace, covering three decades of violence without mssing a beat. King does not, however, gloss over the genuine tragedy of this private civil war. At least 20 people, many of them innocent, died in the course of the feud, and King captures the loss and the grief of the bereaved families. He also captures the wider implications of this private war for the US at large, with two states, Kentucky and West Virginia, being drawn almost to the point of war themselves over the dispute, and the interest of the world outside piqued, with journalists from the big cities risking their lives in order to penetrate the clan strongholds in search of a scoop. This is an enthralling piece of writing, sad, but gripping which will reward the reader very richly indeed.
    • 3/5
      The subject matter of the book is of high interest, but , while the author has done much research, the book does not do a good job to enable the casual reader to know who is who, often referring to people by nicknames. The family trees are not as helpful as they could be. As far as blame goes each side has to bear some, though probably the most salient wrong was the killing of a McCoy boy who was innocent of anything except failing to blame his brothers for their actions. A modicum of gun control might have saved some lives though the gun manufacturers would have objected. A sorry time in Appalachian history.