In the kingdom of coal : an American family and the rock that changed the world / / Dan Rottenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814141903321
• Autore: Rottenberg Dan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-95131-4; 1-135-95132-2; 1-280-07617-8; 0-203-48856-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.7/622334/092273; B
• Soggetti: Businessmen - United States; Coal miners - United States; Coal trade - United States - History; Coal mines and mining - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-318) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: In the Kingdom of Coal An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World; Copyright; Contents; Introduction The Message in the Necho Allen Hotel; Leisenring and Givens Family Trees; Chronology; Prologue "There Will Come a Time"; Part I: Mauch Chunk; Chapter 1 "A Rock That Burns"; Chapter 2 A Passage from the Mines; Chapter 3 Holy Trinity; Chapter 4 Boy Wonder of the Anthracite; Chapter 5 Souls in Darkness; Chapter 6 A Road Not Taken; Part II: Connellsville; Chapter 7 The Ambitions of Henry Clay Frick; Chapter 8 At War in the Coke Fields; Part III: Big Stone Gap; Chapter 9 Starting Over; Chapter 10 The Rise of John L.LewisChapter 11 Utopia Goes Union; Chapter 12 Be Careful What You Wish For; Chapter 13 Prelude to Murder; Part IV: To The Powder River; Chapter 14 The Age of Uncertainty; Chapter 15 Riding the Roller Coaster; Chapter 16 Nowhere to Hide; Epilogue A Hyacinth Blooms at Imboden; Principal Characters; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: It was a time of poverty and enterprise, when poor men slaved in the ; mines, rich men became barons and America grew from a backward agricultural colony to the industrial force of the modern world. The driving power behind this transformation was coal, the black gold that even today illuminates our cities and runs our personal computers.In The Kingdom of Coal tells the extraordinary story of coal through the eyes of two families--one the magnates, one the miners--over three generations while locked together, for better or worse, in a common quest.At the reigns of power are the