Moonshine on North Carolina Public Radio

Cover for Thompson: Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World. Click for larger imageCharles Thompson, author of the new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World, was a recent guest on North Carolina Public Radio’s The State of Things.

“Charlie Thompson wanted to learn more about his grandfather’s history in moonshine, so began investigating his hometown and the ‘Moonshine Capital of the World,’ Franklin County, Virginia. What he found was a complicated picture of poverty and necessity juxtaposed with a hierarchy of power that was revealed during a famous conspiracy trial in 1935.”


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