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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 2008
On Sale: January 8, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0374125147
EAN: 9780374125141
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
One of America’s most dramatic environmental battles is
unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are
blasting the mountains, decapitating them for coal. The
forested ridge tops and valley streams of Appalachia—one of
the country’s natural treasures—are being destroyed, along
with towns and communities. An entire culture is
disappearing, and to this day, most Americans have no idea
it’s happening.
Michael Shnayerson first traveled to the coal fields four
years ago, on assignment for Vanity Fair. There he met an
inspiring young lawyer named Joe Lovett, who was fighting
mountaintop removal in court with a series of brilliant and
daring lawsuits. He also met Judy Bonds, whose grassroots
group, the Coal River Mountain Watch, was speaking out in a
region where talking truth to power was both brave and
dangerous. The two had joined forces to take on Massey
Energy, the largest and most aggressive of the coal
companies, and its swaggering, notorious chairman, Don
Blankenship.
Coal River is Shnayerson’s account of this dramatic
struggle. From courtroom to boardroom, forest clearing to
factory floor, Shnayerson gives us a novelistic and
compelling portrait of the people who risked their
reputations and livelihoods in the fight against King Coal.
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