5/12/2023 0 Comments A soul full of coal dust![]() ![]() Hamby unpacks the complex issues as a well-placed storyteller, introducing people we meet in the kitchens and clinics of rural Appalachia. ![]() ![]() With devastating clarity, it exposes the corruption, fraud, and medical, legal, and corporate malpractice that has denied miners and their families the life support and medical care that is their due.Ĭhris Hamby, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times, describes working on this book as the most meaningful experience of his career.īased on more than eight years of reporting, interviews, research and trips to West Virginia detailed in extensive endnotes, Soul Full of Coal Dust brings to life the people, places and unvarnished facts that underpin the fight for justice, and the ultimate triumph of taking on the powerful force of Big Coal and winning. Soul Full of Coal Dust is a riveting account that is part memoir, part medical and legal thriller, part underdog takes on the Goliath of systemic injustice. ![]()
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