Review: Interesting recounting of a seldom visited time in history.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2011
Blood on the Tracks, an e-book edition by Cecelia Holland, is an iteration of the seldom presented facts about the uprising by railroad workers in 1877.The author has provided a recounting of the decisions leading up to the riotous happenings, a description of the part played by management on local, state and federal levels and of the blunders made that lead to countless wounded and  many deaths of innocents, as well as participants,  and to destruction of large portions of private property.Holland additionally relates the frightening similarity of the precipitating factors to those that exist in 2011 with its new technology, economic problems, worker displacement and seeming isolation of members in authority.A first class read if you are interested in the idea of how repetitive history could be. Reviewed by John H. Manhold, award winning fiction/non-fiction author.