The events and individuals described in Mark A. Bradley’s new nonfiction book are endlessly fascinating and supremely distressing. Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America details the corrupt and bloody leadership of Tony Boyle, the former president of the UMWA, and how he took on, with brute force, a challenging rival: Joseph “Jock” Yablonski.

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