Historical Fiction Book Club
Thu, Jan 16
|Birch Tree Books
Join us for the discussion of Rednecks by Taylor Brown with your host Hope.
Time & Location
Jan 16, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Books , 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
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A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history.
Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars--from the Matewan Massacre through the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed conflict on American soil since the Civil War, when some one million rounds were fired, bombs were dropped on Appalachia, and the term "redneck" would come to have an unexpected origin story.
Brimming with the high stakes drama of America's buried history, Rednecks tells a powerful story of rebellion against oppression. In a land where the coal companies use violence and intimidation to keep miners from organizing, "Doc Moo" Muhanna, a Lebanese-American doctor (inspired by…