![]() ![]() Instead, it is a beautifully crafted deep dive into the horrific realities of black lung, what one of Hamby’s sources describes as “one of the largest industrial medicine disasters that the United States has ever seen.” While black lung disease is the aforementioned disaster, Hamby also discusses the benefits system which was ostensibly created to care for miners and their widows. ![]() While stereotypes and subtle insults are somewhat common in other books about Appalachia, Hamby’s book contains none. ![]() As an avid reader of nonfiction, and the granddaughter of a coal miner, I was eager to read Soul Full of Coal Dust. Following that short article, Hamby spent years in West Virginia alongside miners and their advocates while researching this book. Hamby, now a Pulitzer Prize winner, started writing about coal country in 2011 with a piece for The Center for Public Integrity. Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia by Chris Hamby is a work of investigative advocacy journalism which discusses the medical and legal realities of black lung, a disease common among coal miners. ![]()
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