LEADER 03587oam 2200697I 450 001 9910814141903321 005 20240405104218.0 010 $a1-135-95131-4 010 $a1-135-95132-2 010 $a1-280-07617-8 010 $a0-203-48856-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203488560 035 $a(CKB)1000000000250833 035 $a(EBL)182780 035 $a(OCoLC)437055908 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000299469 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278332 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299469 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241438 035 $a(PQKB)11177951 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC182780 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL182780 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10098897 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7617 035 $a(OCoLC)56089347 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000250833 100 $a20180706d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the kingdom of coal $ean American family and the rock that changed the world /$fDan Rottenberg 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (354 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-203-60314-1 311 $a0-415-93522-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-318) and index. 327 $aIn 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aIt 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 606 $aBusinessmen$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCoal miners$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCoal trade$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCoal mines and mining$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aBusinessmen 615 0$aCoal miners 615 0$aCoal trade$xHistory. 615 0$aCoal mines and mining$xHistory. 676 $a338.7/622334/092273 676 $aB 700 $aRottenberg$b Dan.$01676507 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814141903321 996 $aIn the kingdom of coal$94042777 997 $aUNINA