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The Coal War: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Upton Sinclair (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
The scion of a coal-mining empire sides against his family in the bloody fight to unionize Colorado’s mines in this gripping sequel to King Coal

The son of a prominent coal magnate, Hal Warner is horrified by the dangerous working conditions, long hours, and starvation wages endured by the men who toil in his family’s mines. He tries to rouse other members of his privileged class to a similar state of indignation, but soon faces a much more severe test of his progressivism. When a labor group organizes a massive strike and the mining companies respond with punishing brutality, Hal’s commitment to the cause of reform becomes a matter of life and death.
 
The Coal War is Upton Sinclair’s searing follow-up to King Coal. Based on events surrounding the Ludlow Massacre of 1914, it dramatizes one of the most significant conflicts between labor and capital in American history and offers an unflinching look at the shocking realities of a miner’s life in the early twentieth century. Published posthumously, this powerful and tragic novel is one of Sinclair’s finest.
This ebook has been authorized by the estate of Upton Sinclair.
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    December 15, 2015
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“No writer on the press has ever matched the old muckraker Sinclair for exuberance and abundance. . . . Sinclair’s thesis is still valid—that America lacks a press worthy of a democracy.” —James Boylan, Columbia Journalism Review

“Muckraking at its best.” —Granville Hicks

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Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state’s ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood; Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case; The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism; and the eleven novels in the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B017APD53G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (December 15, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.0 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 417 pages
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Upton Sinclair

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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." He is remembered for writing the famous line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it."

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  • Gary F. Dunn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Working Class Heroics
    Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017
    "The Coal War", published posthumously in 1976, is the sequel to "King Coal" (1917). It continues Sinclair’s treatment of the Colorado strike in 1913-1914, aspects of which are often referred to as the Ludlow Massacre. Sinclair states in his postscript that in the novel "every detail of the events of the strike is both true and typical’ and that "episode after episode is made out of the sworn testimony of actual participants or witnesses". The novels offer dramatic and detailed descriptions of the hardships, dangers, and often brutally unfair treatment faced by coal miners and their families as they attempt to eke out a dignified existence. Mary Burke, the coal miner’s daughter, is a heroine whose morality, courage, understanding, and commitment to social justice is admirable (far more so than Samantha in Grisham's "Gray Mountain").
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  • Gary F. Dunn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Working Class Heroics
    Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2017
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    "The Coal War", published posthumously in 1976, is the sequel to "King Coal" (1917). It continues Sinclair’s treatment of the Colorado strike in 1913-1914, aspects of which are often referred to as the Ludlow Massacre. Sinclair states in his postscript that in the novel "every detail of the events of the strike is both true and typical’ and that "episode after episode is made out of the sworn testimony of actual participants or witnesses". The novels offer dramatic and detailed descriptions of the hardships, dangers, and often brutally unfair treatment faced by coal miners and their families as they attempt to eke out a dignified existence. Mary Burke, the coal miner’s daughter, is a heroine whose morality, courage, understanding, and commitment to social justice is admirable (far more so than Samantha in Grisham's "Gray Mountain").
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