About this title: One of Americas most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in the coal mines of southern West Virginia. Shnayerson gives readers a novelistic and compelling portrait of the people who have risked their reputations and livelihoods in the fight against King Coal.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2008-01-08
ISBN-13:9780374125141ISBN:0374125147
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 1-8-08
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780374125141ISBN:0374125147
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"Incredible investigate journalism but lacking in flow and coherency at times. This was assigned reading for orientation at CU, and I learned a lot about mountain top mining/removal in West VA and the Appalachians."
"Tragic, tragic, tragic. Some of the oldest mountains in the world are being blown apart in a beautiful state to get at the coal so we can have cheap energy. Do average Americans even know this is going on? There is a delicate balance between saving the environment and saving good paying local jobs. However, once the mountains are gone, they are gone--"stream reconstruction" sounds ridiculous. In the long run, I wonder how mountaintop mining will affect West Virginia tourism, health of the residents in the area, and how mitigaton efforts look many years down the road."
"I didn't finish this one. Images of mountain streams turned black with sludge from the mines, entire valleys filled in with rocks and wast, homes and even complete towns bought up by the mining companies and bulldozed-- it got too sad and depressing. I think the mountain preservation groups triumph in the courts in the end, but getting there was more than I could take."
"Except for the over-the-top villainous portrayal of Massey Energy's CEO, this is an accurate account of how mountain top removal devastated one of many Appalachian coal mining regions."
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