Dan Rottenberg

In the Kingdom of Coal (eBook, PDF)

An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2003. This volume charts the history of anthracite coal mining industry and developments around the Josiah White rolling mill in Philadelphia, the Lehigh Coal Mining Company created in 1972 in Pennsylvania, Canal and railroad developments, John Leisenring and Sharpe, Leisenring and Co; and Westmoreland from 1794 to 1999.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135951320
• Artikelnr.: 39478992

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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