Killing for Coal

- Illustrations : Non - Publisher's note :A bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre looks at the brutal clash between members of the United Mine Workers of America, a state militia with ties to Colorado's industrial barons, and guards employed by the Rockefeller family and illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers' strikes over the course of nearly half a century.

"The earliest histories of the massacre were sponsored by unions, and historians since have followed their lead in seeing it as an episode in the long conflict between capital and labor....Andrews's innovation is to wonder whether "energy systems" might provide a better explanation than ideology. He therefore takes a long view of the story--so long that he goes back to the Cretaceous to explain the formation of coal. Andrews's account [is] less moral and more mineral than the standard one...." - New Yorker, 01/19/2009