The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and lawless 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, spearheaded by a bomber squadron commanded by General Billy Mitchel…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7867-3594-5
- EAN: 9780786735945
- Produktnummer: 26221982
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'112 KB
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Robert Shogan has spent more than thirty years covering the political scene in Washington as national political correspondent for Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Government at the Center for Study of American Government of Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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