Beaut McGregor grows up hating the Pennsylvania mining town of Coal Creek, where the men seem broken by their work. In Chicago he becomes a lawyer, but his real vision is to teach the city’s disordered workers to march together in step, discovering their own strength, and the movement he starts alarms the powerful.
An early 1917 novel by the author of Winesburg, Ohio, raw and visionary in its portrait of industrial America. Download the free EPUB.