@book{1385, keywords = {Roman Catholics, German Americans, labor strikes, baseball, coke industry, Ku Klux Klan, alcoholism, child abuse, saints, coal industry}, author = {Marian Szczepanski}, title = {Playing St. Barbara}, abstract = {The Sweeney women—mother Clare, and daughters Norah, Deirdre, and Katie—channel St. Barbara in surviving Fin, the family’s abusive patriarch. An immigrant coal miner, Fin battles the Frick Coke Company and strike-breakers from the Ku Klux Klan.}, year = {2013}, pages = {400 p.}, publisher = {High Hill Press}, address = {[St. Charles, MO]}, note = {East Allegheny is referred to as Deutschtown.}, language = {English}, }