The Fire Down Below: The Great Anthracite Strike of 1902 and the People who Made the Decisions
- ISBN-10
- 0972693106
- ISBN-13
- 9780972693103
- Pages
- 147
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Avocado Productions
- Author
- Jack McDonough
Description
An account of the Anthraate Coal Strike of 1902, with separate chapters on the major players: Theodore Roosevelt, John Mitchell (President of United Mine Workers), Attorney Clarence Darrow, and Father John Curran. Contains full annotated chronology of all major strike events, a chapter titled "The World of 1902" to educate the reader on the major events and discoveries of the time, and a chapter titled "The World of the Miners" which contains an extended excerpt from the stage play of the same name, to which the book is a companion piece.
