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Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
The West Virginia Mine Wars, Then and Now: Gun Thugs, Rednecks & Radicals
Brought together by historian, David Alan Corbin, Gun Thugs, Rednecks & Radicals presents an archive of mostly-out-of-print historical documents forged by labor leaders during the West Virginia Mine Wars and especially the Battle of Blair Mountain. It is, in effect, 250 pages of labor history throw-down that has powerful reverberations for the environmental movement today.
From even...
Review of When Miners March by William C. Blizzard
The recording and telling of history have proven to be troublesome for the critically-minded as inconsistencies, innocent mistakes, and downright lies plague much of what readers are given as purported fact. Of course as many realize, the “winners” or those in power have traditionally written history and delivered it in a neat, seemingly indisputable package. Fortunately, honest...
When the prophet Isaiah famously wrote "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low" to prepare for the coming Messiah, he didn't have the modern practice of mountaintop removal in mind.To many modern readers, the very term "mountaintop removal" is a mystery, so a few words of explanation may be in order. Almost everyone is familiar with the practices of...
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
With oil prices soaring and the Middle East in turmoil, it may be some comfort to know that the United States is sitting on gargantuan reserves of fossil fuel. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's coal.Just how bad is laid out emphatically in "Big Coal," Jeff Goodell's compelling indictment of one of the United States's biggest, most powerful and most antiquated industries. Coal, he...