Riveting.
~Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review
A chronicle of the Ledfords that invites us all to contemplate a realistic picture of how—family by family, homestead by village by city—our multifaceted country came to be.
~Chevy Chaser
Egerton's technique of taking the reader through the process of writing the book with the Ledfords gives the reader a glimpse of the subjects' thought processes, attitudes, intelligence and wit. Burnam and Addie Ledford left us all a history that is at once unique to them and quintessentially Kentuckian.
~Kentucky Monthly
An exemplary work of oral history.... This anniversary edition invites a new audience to the pleasures of local and regional history as interpreted by a master journalist through the voices of those who lived it.
~Lexington Herald-Leader
In Egerton's hands, the Ledfords' memoirs are a tale of America itself: a social history that not only gets to the heart of being American, but, for an anthropological standpoint, also describes the way meaning is transmitted and preserved within social groups.
~Nashville Scene
There is no way to read this book without coming away with a deeper appreciation of what America is all about.
~Nashville Tennessean
Egerton urges us to recall, record, write down and remember the tales and traditions that make us the people we are.
~Nashville Tennessean
In Egerton's hands, their story becomes a small American epic.... Generations illustrates the power of memory and the spoken word.... His accomplishment is as durable and as loving as the Ledfords' lives.
~Washington Post