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Goodbye Wifes and Daughters

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Availability:In StockContributor:Susan Kushner ResnickPublish date:2011-03-01Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803236103ISBN-10:803236107UPC:9780803236103Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Disasters & Disaster ReliefBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturyAward:2011 Spur Awards Finalist - Nonfiction-Contemporary AwardSize:8.51 x 5.56 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCG3JNA7KA
One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. "Goodbye wifes and daughters," wrote two of the miners as they died. The story of that tragic day and its aftermath unfolds in this book through the eyes of those same wives and daughters--women who lost their husbands, fathers, and sons, livelihoods, neighbors, and homes, yet managed to fight back and persevere.
Susan Kushner Resnick has uncovered the story behind all those losses. She chronicles the missteps and questionable ethics of the mine's managers, who blamed their disregard for safety on the exigencies of World War II; the efforts of an earnest federal mine inspector and the mine union's president (later a notorious murderer), who tried in vain to make the mine safer; the heroism of the men who battled for nine days to rescue the trapped miners; and the effect the disaster had on the entire mining industry. Resnick illuminates a particular historical tragedy with all its human ramifications while also reminding us that such tragedies caused by corporate greed and indifference are still with us today.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803236103ISBN-10:803236107UPC:9780803236103Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Disasters & Disaster ReliefBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturyAward:2011 Spur Awards Finalist - Nonfiction-Contemporary AwardSize:8.51 x 5.56 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCG3JNA7KA
Susan Kushner Resnick has been a journalist for twenty-five years; her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, salon.com, and Utne Reader. She is the author of Sleepless Days: One Woman's Journey through Postpartum Depression.
Publisher: Bison Books

Awards

🏆 2011 Spur Awards Finalist - Nonfiction-Contemporary Award

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