COAL. A MEMOIR AND CRITIQUE.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. (1998). 225pp. Illus. Hard bound. With dust jacket. Fine copy. Signed by the author. Historical account of mining, and a memoir of one family's involvement in it. Four generations of author's family have worked in the mines, including himself, and his book interweaves family letters and diaries with firsthand interviews and literature to evoke a century's worth of mining and coal town life.