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“An ambitious, vivid account . . . A vital and anecdotally rich history of the struggle to organize coal miners in West Virginia . . . Green presents readers with a refreshingly nuanced and fuller depiction of this class of workers than previously conceived . . . The Devil Is Here in These Hills is ambitious in scope [and] fast-moving.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune“The story James Green has to tell in The Devil Is Here in These Hills . . . is among the best and largely forgotten American stories.”—New York Times“James Green provides what could be the best history of events in West Virginia from 1892 to 1933, especially in the coalfields.”—Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)“The Devil is Here in These Hills provides much needed perspective on the economic, social and political issues that still confound the Mountaineer State. . . . The author’s nuanced treatment . . . is the way history should be written. . . . Mr. Green’s thorough research and steady analysis . . . gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. He tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“Deepens our understanding of . . . well-known labor conflicts . . . The Devil Is Here in These Hills not only succeeds in bringing together heretofore disparate episodes in coal miners’ struggles for social justice but convincingly connects these moments and movements to a central theme: ‘a people’s fight to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of association in the workplaces where the rights of property owners had reigned supreme.’”—Journal of American History“A lively and accessible history of the West Virginia mine wars and the struggle for the United Mine Workers of America union from the 1890s through the 1920s. This is the most authoritative book written on this bloody and turbulent chapter of US history since David Allan Corbin’s 1981 Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields.”—Choice “James Green has resurrected an important, searing piece of our heritage—and just the kind of thing your high school American History teacher didn’t teach you. His lively and moving account of the West Virginia mine wars is a reminder of how painfully long people in this country had to fight to gain even barely decent wages and working conditions. And, as today’s gap between the 1% and everyone else grows ever wider, the era of the robber barons he evokes so well doesn’t seem that far away.”—Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars and King Leopold’s Ghost“In James Green’s capable hands, the bloody Appalachian mine wars become an important national story of the forces of corporate greed met with the indomitable power of the human spirit. Insightful, eloquent—The Devil is Here in These Hills will forever change the way we think of the miners’ role in early twentieth century history.”—Philip Dray, author of There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America“The Devil is in These Hills is the most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I've ever read. James Green has made sense of a half century of violent confrontation.”—John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan“Green mines the historically dark seams of the sanguinary Mountain State coal wars that raged in the early decades of the 20th century. . . . Green opens our eyes with his assiduous research and steady storytelling.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Green . . . has assembled a gritty cast of characters in this fact-rich recounting of the West Virginia mine war . . . These events, until now with Green’s account, have been largely forgotten, in some instances suppressed. Green gives the troubling era rebirth.”—Bookreporter“Green does an outstanding job here of bringing this period to life, giving readers a vivid picture of the hardscrabble Appalachian miners’ day-to-day existence and their frequent bloody skirmishes with coal company hired guns . . . A thoroughly documented and masterfully written account of a little-remembered but critical period in U.S. history, when unions scored a major victory for workers’ rights.”—Booklist“There are many fine photos of the struggles in West Virginia, but Green gives us a full-length feature film, telling the fifty-year-long saga of the fight against greed and exploitation. An excellent book.”—Elliott Gorn, professor of history at Loyola University Chicago and author of Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America“James Green’s The Devil is Here in These Hills brilliantly locates the West Virginia Mine Wars within the contexts of West Virginia and American history and portrays this story as a basic struggle for the freedoms Americans have always expected as their birthright. Green personifies this class struggle in a panorama of heroes, antiheroes, and the mass of ordinary people doing unordinary things to achieve a better life. This is an outstanding book which, undoubtedly, will stand for a long time to come as the best single volume on the subject.”—Ronald L. Lewis, Professor of History Emeritus, West Virginia University“James Green’s astonishing book deftly depicts a multinational and interracial group of hard-bitten men, rallied by an Irish-born grandmother, who waged a war for democracy that lasted forty years. As this masterful history demonstrates, the South was often a hotbed of unionism, poor women proved feisty and enduring adversaries, and remote ‘hillbillies’ lived in one of the most industrialized regimes in the world. . . . As Americans grow increasingly concerned about global capital’s oppression of workers, we would do well to understand how and why it happened here and what it took to stop it.”—Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, Yale University“Engaging and easy to follow. [Green] is a gifted storyteller who manages to weave a fascinating narrative that is both scholarly and fun to read. . . . Another strength of Green’s book is his ability to put the labor strife in broader contexts, specifically that of Appalachian culture, and the labor strife prominent in much of the U.S. . . . I would recommend The Devil is Here in These Hills to anyone with an interest in American history, mining, or Appalachian studies. James Green has written an enlightening, accessible tome that should become the standard history of mining unionization in America.”—Appalachian History“A story full of pathos and amazing characters that seem invented for a novel or film and become larger than life in Green’s deft hands . . . Green . . . plumbs much of the little-known scholarly work on various aspects of these years to give us a new and compelling accessible synthesis.”—West Virginia History“Celebrated labor historian James Green tells the story of West Virginia and coal like never before.”—Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota)“[A] captivating new book . . . Aside from telling riveting stories of labor battles, Green also dissects how the mine wars are interpreted today . . . [A] beautifully written account.”—Truthout“James Green brings to light a little-known labor battle that never garnered the same fame as the automotive and steel industry tussles, yet exceeds those scraps in the depths of its brutality and inhumanity . . . This engaging account mirrors many economic issues of the present day.”—Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star

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About the Author

James Green is the author of five books, including Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. Green received his PhD in history from Yale University and is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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Product details

Hardcover: 448 pages

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition (February 3, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0802123317

ISBN-13: 978-0802123312

Product Dimensions:

6.1 x 1.8 x 9.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.5 out of 5 stars

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Recently the PBS series "American Experience" featured a documentary based largely on the content of this fine book. As a native West Virginian, I am always interested in the history of my home state, but this part of its history was something of which I had only been vaguely aware, until now. Few people know that America's largest armed insurrection, aside from the Civil War, took place in the southern West Virginia coal fields, in 1921, culminating in the "Battle of Blair Mountain," which pitted nearly 10,000 armed miners against local authorities armed with World War I era machine guns and even bombers (the one and only aerial bombardment of Americans on American soil). It's the story of the rise of the UMWA, Mother Jones, the Matewan massacre, and a gigantic cast of real characters that spanned 40 years. James Green tells the tale in great detail, with an easily readable narrative flow, and plenty of documentation for those who wish to dig deeper into the story. Whether you are interested in West Virginia specifically or labor history, in general, this book is a fine introduction to a little-known aspect of our country's heritage.

Though born in Maine my father was from West Virginia. Some of my grandmother's family worked in the mines and one died in the Nellis mine disaster. My dad worked in a chemical plant and lost his job when the union did not support them. In West Virginia I learned a new meaning for scab. This book helped me understand what I experienced in West Virginia and gave me a new understanding and appreciation for those who gave so much for freedom. Thanks to the author for giving me a glimpse into my family's past.

A very good history of a much overlooked period in U.S. history.I found it interesting that Mr. Green did not attempt to deify Mother Jones or UMWA's John L. Lewis. Without denying the parts that they played, he gives credit to the players who deserve it.It is also worthwhile to remember that the "rank and file" miners did what it was necessary to do. That is to say that when their rights as citizens and workers were abrogated by government, mine owners, etc. they took matters into their own hands. A lesson for today...

My Grandfather, Great Grandfather, and most of their brothers all worked the mines in eastern Ohio back in the 20's thru the 60's. My Dad told me stories about the mine owners saying like the said in the book "Make sure that mule don't get killed, a man I can replace but mules cost money". He talked about the company store and how the mine owned all the houses where the men and their families lived. Also he said that my Great Grandfather had 3 pictures hanging on his wall Jesus, FDR, and John L Lewis. I had heard about the Coal Wars from a friend who lived in Mingo County WV ( I had never heard about it in school or even my family). This book really takes you there back in the hollows and hills with these miners and their families. It's really an eye opening read about how terribly these men and their families were treated before the unions came to the WV Coal Fields. I highly recommend it.

I've lived in WV for the last ten years but had little awareness of the depth of danger and exploitation involved in earlier days of WV mining. I should have found out sooner,both to appreciate my adopted state's history and to further temper my belief in the merits of capitalism with the witness of the heartlessness that human selfishness and greed can spawn.The story is well drawn, probably a task made more difficult by sparse and scattered original sources.Definitely a worthwhile read for anyone with even the remotest interest in labor history or the earlier days of our glorious state.

James Green does a wonderful job highlighting the struggle of the coal miners with the mine owners and the government. This book is a wonderful resource to understand how and why the coal miners were willing to risk everything to have union representation to be able to fight for a living wage, freedom from having to shop only at company stores, freedom to have an independent inspector weigh the coal they mined as the mine operators were in the business of not paying due to improperly weighing, the ability to BE themselves without having hired armed thugs police the mines and mine towns, and how the government and mine operators shot down these people and their request for a union to have fair pay.

I really learned a lot from this book. Great stories about the people and events associated with Appalachian miners and their unionizing attempts. More people should familiarize themselves with the struggles of the unions to achieve the benefits we take for granted today.

As a native West Virginian with family history in the mines this was a look at a bleak period in the state's history. While I am one who believes unions have outlived their usefulness (the welfare state takes their place, this was definitely a time when the union saved people's lives. The book shows what we can do with unfettered greed and evil. Unfortunately, still plenty to go around.

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