The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
New York: Basic Books, 2004. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback. Good. Item #2353797
ISBN: 0813340969
Book club edition. Light stain to base of jacket and boards, affecting only the bottom margin corner of a couple pages.
xiv, 271 pp. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners-- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-- picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle against an opposing legion of deputies, state police, and makeshift militia. Only the intervention of a Federal expeditionary force ended this undeclared war. In The Battle of Blair Mountain, Robert Shogan shows this long-neglected slice of American history to be a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America.
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