The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising by Robert Shogan (Repost)
The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising by Robert Shogan
English | July 26, 2006 | ISBN: 0813340969, 0465077730 | 296 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB
English | July 26, 2006 | ISBN: 0813340969, 0465077730 | 296 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB
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.