TY - SER
KW - trade unions
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Congress of Industrial Organizations
KW - Communist Party
KW - Philip Murray (1886-1952)
KW - John L. Lewis (1880-1969)
KW - United Steelworkers
KW - steel industry
KW - United Mine Workers
KW - Monongahela River Valley
KW - coal industry
AU - John Hoerr
AB - Pete Bonner is a struggling beer salesman during the Great Depression who makes sales calls along Route 40 near Uniontown, Fayette County. When he drives in low gear up Chestnut Ridge through an upslope fog, he swerves, hits a human figure along the highway, and stops to help him. The victim is Joe Miravich, a blacklisted coal miner on the run. Miravich does not want a doctor, just a ride, and the two travel together, argue a lot, and finally bond.
C1 - 1930s-40s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; McKeesport; White Oak; Dravosburg; Clairton; Fayette County; Uniontown
C4 - Literary; Historical; Labor
CY - Pittsburgh
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Pete Bonner is a struggling beer salesman during the Great Depression who makes sales calls along Route 40 near Uniontown, Fayette County. When he drives in low gear up Chestnut Ridge through an upslope fog, he swerves, hits a human figure along the highway, and stops to help him. The victim is Joe Miravich, a blacklisted coal miner on the run. Miravich does not want a doctor, just a ride, and the two travel together, argue a lot, and finally bond.
PB - Autumn House Press
PP - Pittsburgh
PY - 2009
RN - John Hoerr (1930—2015) is a McKeesport, Allegheny County native and journalist who served as a labor editor and senior writer for <em>Business Week</em>. He's best known for <em>And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline and Fall of the American Steel Industry</em> (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), the definitive analysis of steel's collapse in the early 1980s. He lived in Massachusetts.
EP - 304 p.
TI - Monongahela Dusk
ER -