Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008
Night Comes to the Appalachians
By Michael Tomasky
Coal River
by Michael Shnayerson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 321 pp., $25.00
The Scotia Widows: Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal
by Gerald M. Stern
Random House, 145 pp., $20.00
Monongah: The Tragic Story of the Worst Industrial Accident in US History
by Davitt McAteer
West Virginia University Press, 331 pp., $30.00
In the May 13 Democratic primary in West Virginia, Barack Obama, despite having practically sewn up his party's nomination the previous week with a win in North Carolina and a narrow loss in Indiana, suffered his largest defeat of the primary season, losing to Hillary Clinton by 67 to 26 percent. Obama at least had the sense to anticipate the result, and therefore spent almost no time in the state, although his lone speaking appearance in Charleston, the capital, remains memorable as the moment when he again started wearing a US flag lapel pin (this was about a month after the ABC debate in which he was asked about his failure to do so).
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