Black gold : the history of how coal made Britain / Jeremy Paxman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paxman, Jeremy, 1950- author.

Contributor:

McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal--Great Britain--History.

Coal.

Industrial revolution--Great Britain.

Industrial revolution.

Coal mines and mining.

History.

Coal mines and mining--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : William Collins, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Dirty Heat

2. Invisible Underground

3. To Those Who Hath Shall Be Given

4. Full Steam Ahead

5. The Right Side of the Tracks

6. Smoke on the Water

7. All I Want is a Room Somewhere

8. The Peoples Flag

9. Does Your Country Really Need You?

10. Not Quite What Wed Hoped For

11. Oops!

12. Workers' Playtime

13. King Coal Coughs

14. White Heat

15. `People will always need coal'

16. To the Death

17. Goodnight and Goodbye

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1. "No Comment"

2. "Worse Than a Murderer"

3. Senator X

4. Patriotic Homosexuals

5. "The Greatest National Scandal Since the Existence of the United States"

Harry Truman

6. The Concealed Enemy

7. "This Moral Leper"

8. Lavender Lists

9. "A Government Within a Government"

10. The Homintern

Dwight Eisenhower

11. "No More Bohlens!"

12. The Heterosexual Dictatorship

13. Pixies on the Potomac

14. "We Accuse "

15. The Hunted

John F. Kennedy

16. First Friends

17. The Group of the Intrepid

18. "That Old Black Fairy"

Lyndon B. Johnson

19. A Long Way from Arp

20. "A Quite Serious Situation"

21. "Gone and Forgotten"

22. The Fruit Loop

23. Scandal in Sacramento

24. The Thrill of Treason

Richard Nixon

25. "Destroy Your Opponent"

26. Fags

27. "We Are Impatient"

28. The City of Conversation

Gerald Ford

29. The Ultimate Democracy

30. "Too Good an Opportunity"

Jimmy Carter

31. Out of the Closets, into the White House

32. Code Breakers

Ronald Reagan

33. "The Homosexual Thing"

34. The Manchurian Candidate

35. An Enclosed and Enchanted Garden

36. Sodom-on-the-Potomac

37. "I Don't Have It. Do You?"

38. "Them" Is "Us"

39. "Our Sebastian"

40. Mr. Green

41. The Wonderful, the Creative, and the Brave

George H. W. Bush

42. Naming Names

Bill Clinton

43. A Profoundly Important Strength.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780008128340

0008128340

OCLC:

1180203952

Publisher Number:

99988585523