King Coal (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1917, and based on the Colorado Coal Strikes of 1913-14, this novel is a scathing expose of the conditions in the coal mines of the western United States.  Wealthy Hal Warner comes to investigate the mines under an assumed name.  There he meets Mary Burke and finds himself falling in love with this young champion of worker's rights, even though he must stay emotionally focused on the condition of the miners.
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King Coal (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1917, and based on the Colorado Coal Strikes of 1913-14, this novel is a scathing expose of the conditions in the coal mines of the western United States.  Wealthy Hal Warner comes to investigate the mines under an assumed name.  There he meets Mary Burke and finds himself falling in love with this young champion of worker's rights, even though he must stay emotionally focused on the condition of the miners.
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King Coal (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

King Coal (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Upton Sinclair
King Coal (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

King Coal (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Upton Sinclair

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Overview

Published in 1917, and based on the Colorado Coal Strikes of 1913-14, this novel is a scathing expose of the conditions in the coal mines of the western United States.  Wealthy Hal Warner comes to investigate the mines under an assumed name.  There he meets Mary Burke and finds himself falling in love with this young champion of worker's rights, even though he must stay emotionally focused on the condition of the miners.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781411459526
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication date: 08/23/2011
Series: Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 422
Sales rank: 414,435
File size: 356 KB
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is best remembered for The Jungle (1906), his fictionalized exposé of the unsanitary and unfair working conditions that characterized the U.S. meatpacking industry. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943. A lifelong progressive, he ran for the governor of California in 1934.

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