{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.029635258358662615, 'fraction_numerical': 0.015197568389057751, 'mean_word_length': 5.154205607476635, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (review)

127 1960s, which allowed many underprivileged mountaineers to afford a college-level education, and that others genuinely sought to preserve elements of Mountain South folk culture. though Hess admits that the perception of destitute mountain students occasionally “led to some degree of tension” between the student body and professors, he concludes that over the years “Lincoln Memorial University was shaped as much by Appalachia as its people tried to shape mountain youth” (pp. 228, 237). Hess has produced an insightful work that will surely intrigue scholars and general readers alike. While the author provides brief glimpses into student life at Lincoln Memorial University, some readers may yearn for greater insight into the unique aspects of students’ daily lives on campus. Additionally, within his chapter-length examination of the 1930 student strike, Hess’s claim that the row proved a “clash of cultures” in which “a handful of worldly professors had invaded the insular world of Appalachia” remains tenuous because it was not necessarily an insider-outsider conflict (p. 158). these quibbles aside, Hess’s study is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature on Civil War memory, Appalachia, and higher education in the New South.