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

Title: In the kingdom of coal : an American family and the rock that changed the world / Dan Rottenberg.
Author: Rottenberg, Dan
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description

xvii, 327 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the Kingdom of Coal tells the 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 Leisenrings, who built a dynasty around coal and whose fortunes intersected with those of Henry Clay Frick, the Carnegies, and the other masters of the American industrial revolution. Miles underground are the sons and daughters of the Givens family, who gave their sweat and sometimes their lives to the Leisenrings' Virginia mines." "Rich with the struggles of management and labor from two families, In the Kingdom of Coal is an American saga of how coal operators made and lost fortunes, coal towns flourished and died, and miners and mine owners battled the earth, the atmosphere, and each other in their quest to satisfy the world's appetite for coal."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-318) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Message in the Necho Allen Hotel -- Leisenring and Givens Family Trees -- Prologue: "There Will Come a Time" -- Ch. 1. "A Rock That Burns" -- Ch. 2. A Passage from the Mines -- Ch. 3. Holy Trinity -- Ch. 4. Boy Wonder of the Anthracite -- Ch. 5. Souls in Darkness -- Ch. 6. A Road Not Taken -- Ch. 7. The Ambitions of Henry Clay Frick -- Ch. 8. At War in the Coke Fields -- Ch. 9. Starting Over -- Ch. 10. The Rise of John L. Lewis -- Ch. 11. Utopia Goes Union -- Ch. 12. Be Careful What You Wish For -- Ch. 13. Prelude to Murder -- Ch. 14. The Age of Uncertainty -- Ch. 15. Riding the Roller Coaster -- Ch. 16. Nowhere to Hide -- Epilogue: A Hyacinth Blooms at Imboden.

ISBN

0415935229 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003009386

OCLC

ocm52348860
SCSB-4840972

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Columbia University Libraries