Forthcoming July 1. 2010

Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry

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Works

My Brain on My Mind
This new abecedarium -- an ancient form -- appears in the Winter 2010 issue of The American Scholar.

Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry

"An intense and accomplished social history."

–Christopher Hitchens, New York Newsday


"One of those rare works that asks and answers important questions about who we are...as a nation and how we got to that point."
–Barbara Kingsolver, Women's Review of Books


"Both scholarly and unusually well written, so that the story moves along at a good pace while not compromising the standards of acute historical analysis."
–E. P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class

Selected Works

Science/Memoir/Reflection
My Brain on My Mind
The ABCs of the thrumming, plastic mystery that allows us to think, feel, and remember
History of Coal Mining
Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry
"A very well-written and well-researched history of the American coal industry from its earliest days through the 1920s."
Choice