Volume 15, Number 9 · November 19, 1970
The Appalachian Tragedy
By Harry M. Caudill
Harlan Miners Speak National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners
Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields by Members of the
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Coal Mining Health and Safety in West Virginia
by J. Davitt McAteer
West Virginia University Press, 689 pp., $20.00
Harlan Miners Speak, first published in the hunger-ridden November of 1931, is important for two reasons. It reminds a now affluent middle age of the horror of the Great Depression and preaches to the rebels of the Wood-stock generation a powerful sermon on this country's capacity to punish and repress dissent. An American saga emerges from its pages.
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