Spirits of Just MenSpirits of Just Men tells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place that many still refer to as the "moonshine capital of the world." Charles D. Thompson Jr. chronicles the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935, which made national news and exposed the far reaching and pervasive tendrils of Appalachia's local moonshine economy. Thompson, whose ancestors were involved in