These old hills they cradled me when I was but an infant. And when I was bigger they let me play in and around them. Oh yes, these old hills..Oh how I love them. And when I was older they let me hunt in them taking rabbits, squirrels, coon and sometimes a deer. Oh yes these old hills... Most of my people left these hills to get jobs in the factories but not me. If I have to leave these hills to make it then I won't make it. Oh these hills... The old people say if the hills could talk oh the stories they could tell.

The principal ambition of this book is to provide an explanation of American and British imperialism