Taylor Brown
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Brown, Taylor
- Virallinen nimi
- Brown, Taylor
- Syntymäaika
- 1982-10-18
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Georgia, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Athens, Georgia, USA
Savannah, Georgia, USA - Koulutus
- University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Ammatit
- Author
Editor, on-line magazine - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Montana Prize in Fiction
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- #41,547
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Across the country, workers were organizing unions to demand a just wage and safe working conditions. The workers went on strike and were thrown out of their houses. The miners found quick replacements.
In West Virginia the mine owners hired enforcers to shut down the strikers, killing those who stood by them. Mother Jones, tired and worn from years of union organizing, came with Union supplies and speeches, until she realized the miners were fighting a war they would not win.
The conflict became legendary, the largest armed conflict since the Civil War.
Rednecks brings to life the people and events of the Matewan Massacre and Battle of Blair Mountain in a narrative filled with tension and threat without respite. Author Taylor Brown creates memorable characters on both sides of the conflict, and in the middle a Lebanese born doctor dedicated to healing who must choose sides, inspired by his own grandfather.
On one side were the mine owners, their hired thugs and the lawmen they bribed, and even Federal troops. On the other side the workers and their families, reduced to living in tents, their anger growing with every murder and beating. The miners wore red bandanas, and were known as Rednecks, which made them easy targets when vigilants and lawmen and Federal troops went to war against them.
The novel is riveting as historical fiction, and illuminating as history of the oppression of the workers, consisting of the most vulnerable and least powerful in society. Decried as socialism and anti-capitalist, Unions also are behind laws that protect workers and a fair wage and created the middle class. In recent years, unions have lost members and power, and we have seen the middle class decline.
We have forgotten the sacrifices and the violence behind laws we take for granted. Rednecks reminds us of this history.
Thanks to the publisher for a free book.… (lisätietoja)