At long last, here is a people's history of Pittsburgh--in the spirit of Howard Zinn--that flips the stock storyline of the Steel City on its head. McCollester's narrative is a welcome corrective to the gloss of standard accounts, corporate and paternalistic. --Peter Oresick, poet and author of Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life
McCollester has written a new and different history of Pittsburgh, and by doing so has assembled in a remarkable way a history of this country. --William Serrin, former labor and workplace correspondent for The New York Times