In the mountains of West Virginia Dan learned the price of work, love, and murder--when murder was a man's last resort. Daniel Boone Huggins, shaped by violent tragedy and a restless passion for... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is the life story of Big Dan Huggins, a hillbilly kid who worked his way up to be a major labor leader. It tells of his dedication to his kid sister beyond the call of what's expected of a big brother until she found Mr. Right, his estrangement from his only son until he died and the younger Huggins gained a new understanding of him. If you think "The Carpetbaggers" and "The Adventurers" was the extent of what Harold Robbins was about as a writer, read this, his "Herman Wouk book".
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
this book was really exciting and i couldn't put it down. it combines not just one genre but several in its ideas. a literary masterpiece
A delicious saga
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This is one of Harold Robbins' best and definitely worth reading. It's a delicious novel covering the life of a man from a poor family of farmers, from his teenager years as a coal miner to his death as one of the most powerful union leaders in the USA. The story of this man, Daniel Boone Huggins, is presented as his youngest son goes after his birth land and gets in touch with his father's origins, seeking to understand his father's ways in life. As usual with Robbins' books, real life characters get mixed in the story (Jimmy Hoffa is one of them), helping to improve the interest in the narration. Cutting to the chase: if you loved Mario Puzo's "The Godfather", go for this one.
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