![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was also the first time I had read a book about the union that crossed all ethnic and religious lines-the Irish, the Italians, the Jews, the Christians and others all united mightily together for their fight. The connection is made all the more searing when some of the coalminers blood seeps into this earth in the violence of the strike. The author also takes great pains in describing the real connection these coal miners (and their families) feel to the actual earth beneath their feet. It was fascinating and heartbreaking, all at the same time. The other rep was quite right-I had never even known that there were Mine Wars in this country, let alone ones so violent that our own army would be called out to subdue the coal miners amid the hills of West Virginia. Anyway, I checked into my hotel, starting to read STORMING HEAVEN, and finished it all in one night. One time, when I was on the road, and suddenly, without a book to read, I actually bought one copy from a surprised bookseller, who wasn't in the habit of selling a publishers' rep a book from their own company. He had told me that I would love them, and learn a lot as well. It was another sales rep who kept after me to read 'just one'. I was selling these books for quite a while before I looked at them as novels I might like to read. ![]()
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