Redneck Boy in the Promised Land
by Ben Jones

This is the hilarious story Ben Jones 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 a depressed railroad docks outside of Portsmouth, Virginia, and spent  most of his days dreaming about where the tracks out of town could take him.  That he would go on to become a beloved television icon on The Dukes of Hazzard and a firebrand two-term congressman's a story that no one could have ever seen coming.

Written with naked honesty and wry humor, this book is one good ol' boy's remarkable tale of falling flat on his face, picking himself up, and finding his way to the American dream--while fighting for civil rights, the plight of the working class, "real" southern culture and the rights of rednecks everywhere.