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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814141903321

Autore

Rottenberg Dan

Titolo

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

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