In the Kingdom of Coal : an American Family and the Rock That Changed the World.

In the Kingdom of Coal : an American Family and the Rock That Changed the World.

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rottenberg, Dan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2003.
Subjects:
Leisenring family.
Givens family.
Givens family
Leisenring family
Businessmen > United States > Biography.
Coal miners > United States > Biography.
Coal trade > United States > History.
Coal mines and mining > United States > History.
Businessmen
Coal miners
Coal mines and mining
Coal trade
United States
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction The Message in the Necho Allen Hotel; Leisenring and Givens Family Trees; Chronology; Prologue ~There Will Come a Time~; ~A Rock That Burns~; A Passage from the Mines; Holy Trinity; Boy Wonder of the Anthracite; Souls in Darkness; A Road Not Taken; The Ambitions of Henry Clay Frick; At War in the Coke Fields; Starting Over; The Rise of John L. Lewis; Utopia Goes Union; Be Careful What You Wish For; Prelude to Murder; The Age of Uncertainty; Riding the Roller Coaster; Nowhere to Hide; Epilogue A Hyacinth Blooms at Imboden; Principal Characters; Notes.
  • BibliographyAcknowledgments; Index.

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