![]() I stopped to wonder if there have ever been times that were not hard in Appalachia. The twenties were hard times in Appalachia. The plight of the miners, the greed and disregard of the men who stole their land and turned them into slave labor, the indifference of the government to the rights or welfare of these people, all ring true. I take the time to say all of this, because I encourage you not to judge this book until you have come through the first part-it’s the appetizer and you are going to get a full meal behind it. By Part Three, all the groundwork laid in the first section fell into place and the story began to gel, to move, to mean. I was seriously thinking this was going to be a 3-star read for me, then I hit Part Two and the story picked up. The first part is very slow and introduces each of the characters in chapters told from their individual points of view. ![]() ![]() Both of these books set a high bar, and in the end, cleared it. ![]() I seem to have read an unusual number of books about this time period and the fights of the coal miners to have union representation. Is ’s depiction of the events surrounding the Blair Mountain uprising in Logan County, West Virginia, an attempt to unionize the coal industry in the early 1920s, and the largest labor uprising in American history. ![]()
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