Joseph Patrick Kelly
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Joseph Patrick Kelly is a professor of literature and director of Irish and Irish American Studies at the College of Charleston.
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'Try That In A Small Town' echoes a similar period in American history during the 1920s and 1930s when the grievances of small-town America had dangerous consequences for democracy.