Böcker av Dan Rottenberg

After decades of detective work, Dan Rottenberg has succeeded in writing the first biography of this exceptionally influential and elusive man.

The driving power behind America's rise from backward agricultural colony to the industrial force of the modern world was coal. This is the story of coal through the eyes of two families - one the magnates, one the miners - over five generations while locked together, for better or worse, in a common quest.