Author: Marcia Davenport
Year: 1942
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9780822958055
0822958058 |
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Originally published in 1942,
was an instant success, and its story of four generations of the Scott family - owners and operators of a Pittsburgh iron and steel works - has since captured the imagination of generations of readers. Absorbing and complex, it chronicles the family's saga from the economic panic of 1873 through the dramatic rise of American industry and trade unionism, through waves of immigration, class conflict, natural disaster, World War I, and Pearl Harbor. In 1945 it was made into a major motion picture starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck.
This reissue features a new foreword by noted steel industry historian John Hoerr, author of
who places the novel in context as a classic depiction of twentieth-century America.
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