Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction The Message in the Necho Allen Hotel; Leisenring and Givens Family Trees; Chronology; Prologue ̃There Will Come a Timẽ; ̃A Rock That Burns̃; A Passage from the Mines; Holy Trinity; Boy Wonder of the Anthracite; Souls in Darkness; A Road Not Taken; The Ambitions of Henry Clay Frick; At War in the Coke Fields; Starting Over; The Rise of John L. Lewis; Utopia Goes Union; Be Careful What You Wish For; Prelude to Murder; The Age of Uncertainty; Riding the Roller Coaster; Nowhere to Hide; Epilogue A Hyacinth Blooms at Imboden; Principal Characters; Notes
BibliographyAcknowledgments; Index
Summary
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 computers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318) and index
