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

ISBN-13: 9780415935227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 320 str.

Dan Rottenberg

Opis

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. of two families - one the magnates, one the miners - over three generations while locked together, for better or worse, in a common quest.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: The Message in the Necho Allen Hotel Leisenring and Givens family trees PROLOGUE: 'There Will Come a Time' PART I: MAUCH CHUNK 1.'A Rock That Burns' 2. A Route From the Mines 3. Holy Trinity 4. Boy Wonder of the Anthracite 5. Souls in Darkness 6. A Road Not Taken PART II: CONNELLSVILLE 7. The Ambitions of Henry Clay Frick 8. At War in the Coke Fields PART III: BIG STONE GAP 9. Starting Over 10. The Rise of John L. Lewis 11. Utopia Goes Union 12. Be Careful What You Wish For 13. Prelude to Murder PART IV: TO THE POWDER RIVER 14. The Age of Uncertainty 15. Riding the Roller Coaster 16. Nowhere to Hide EPILOGUE: A Hyacinth Blooms at Imboden APPENDIX 1.Chronology 2. Principal Characters 3. Notes 4. Bibliography 5. Acknowledgements 6. Index

O autorze

Dan Rottenberg is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and the author of seven books, including Revolution on Wall Street: The Rise and Decline of the New York Stock Exchange. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Rolling Stone, playboy and Town and Country.