“In the tradition of Upton Sinclair and Jack London, Michael Dunn gives us a gritty portrait of working-class life and activism during one of the most violent eras in U.S. labor history. Anywhere but Schuylkill is a social novel built out of passion and the textures of historical research.  It is both a tale of 1870s labor unrest and a tale for the inequalities and injustices of the twenty-first century.”

-Russ Castronovo, author of Beautiful Democracy and Propaganda 1776.

Available on Sep 19, 2023, from all the usual online distributors, or direct from my publisher: http://wix.to/M9gMx11

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History keeps coming back, with words, so far. Let's hope this isn't a thing to happen again in the future. The child coal miners, horrible to think it could happend again

It's a NOVEL, http://wix.to/M9gMx11 there was no hanging of 20 miners. But, the BIG PICTURE is the story. That's what novels do, make a condensed version of a long term, many years struggle

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