Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town
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In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from Europe and the Jim Crow south. The J&L mill, though dirty and dangerous, offered a chance at a better life. It produced the steel that built American cities and won World War II and even became something...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0802125646
ISBN13:9780802125644
Release Date:October 2016
Publisher:Atlantic Monthly Press
Length:400 Pages
Weight:1.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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