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Redneck Boy in the Promised Land: The Confessions of "Crazy Cooter"
by
Ben Jones
Redneck Boy in the Promised Land is Ben Jones’s hilarious, uplifting life story of escaping the rail yards and finding success in the unlikeliest places. As a child, Jones called a dingy railroad shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing home. An unabashed Southern redneck from a "likker drinkin’, hell-raisin’" family, Jones grew up in the depressed railroad docks outsi...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
June 3rd 2008
by Harmony
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If you were like me as a child, you watched the Dukes of Hazard religiously, so you know that Ben Jones played Cooter, Hazard's go-to guy for car repairs and loyal friend of those crazy Duke boys.
I wasn't sure I'd like the book or that it would even interest me, but I gave it a try, and I am so glad I did. Jones has a tongue-in-cheek way of describing things that is both amusing and truthful. He grew up in a time where kids had to use their imaginations for entertainment because Nint...more
I wasn't sure I'd like the book or that it would even interest me, but I gave it a try, and I am so glad I did. Jones has a tongue-in-cheek way of describing things that is both amusing and truthful. He grew up in a time where kids had to use their imaginations for entertainment because Nint...more
Couldn't get into it. Ben Jones has quite a story I'm sure, but after 50 pp of trying, it couldn't sustain my interest. The title may put some people off (it is not Jeff Foxworthy-esque in any sense, but closer to Andy Griffith Show!).
I'm a HUGE Dukes Of Hazzard fan, so I LOVE this book.
Shane
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Recommends it for:
everyone who grew up with The Dukes of Hazzard.
Recommended to Shane by:
Vancouver Public Library
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I finished this book the other day and I found it to be one of the best biographies I have had in a while.
I don't want to spoil this book because it is filled with a ot of great information about his life, his career, and the times we are all in.
The best line from the book (paraphrased): "...the entire Endowment for the Arts cost one half of one wing of one B2 Bomber."
Thanks, Ben for sharing your life story. I expect another volume in a few years...more
I don't want to spoil this book because it is filled with a ot of great information about his life, his career, and the times we are all in.
The best line from the book (paraphrased): "...the entire Endowment for the Arts cost one half of one wing of one B2 Bomber."
Thanks, Ben for sharing your life story. I expect another volume in a few years...more
it's SO a southern childs' life and the way it was in the 60s.
It is a pretty weird experience to read your father's memoir.
Especially since I had front row seats to a lot of what went down in the book. (e.g., I spent a lot of time in dive bars growing up). But I thought my dad was really honest, and I found his writing to be funny, revealing, and brave. Yep, we Joneses might be crazy but we ain't dumb.
Especially since I had front row seats to a lot of what went down in the book. (e.g., I spent a lot of time in dive bars growing up). But I thought my dad was really honest, and I found his writing to be funny, revealing, and brave. Yep, we Joneses might be crazy but we ain't dumb.
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Ben Jones grew up in a railroad track home without electricity, earns fame and fortune as "Cooter" in the TV series "The Dukes of Hazard" and becomes a US Senator. Unfortunately, how he did all that just wasn't very interesting.
Interesting to a point -- sometimes got the feeling that this is a part of his 12-step program and that he had to atone to some of the people named in the book.
Great story about a boy from Portsmouth VA and the lessons he learned.
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