The Molly Maguires
by Wayne G. Broehl
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"The famous episode of murder and violence involving an Irish secret society in the Pennsylvania coal fields in the 1870's--told from fresh materials, including records of Pinkerton's Detective Agency"--Jacket subtitle.Tags
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FILLED with info. This book is basically a fact-check on everything known about what went down. Pretty well written as far as these things go. It does an excellent job of pulling in things I'd never heard about. Like the history of the Mollies in Ireland, and the anti-Irish climate of the times. Plenty of dirt on the coal barron Gower. I learned a lot I hadn't known, but it got tedious after awhile.
Broehl's is a dry account of an interesting story, although he provides some interesting insights into the background in Ireland.
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- Pennsylvania, USA
- Original language
- English
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 364.14 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against public health, safety, order, environment
- LCC
- HV6452 .P4 .M6 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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