Jeff Biggers

Jeff Biggers is the author of The United States of Appalachia, and, more recently, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (The Nation/Basic Books). Follow him on Twitter: @JeffRBiggers.

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  Activism

  Let Us Now Praise a Coal Miner: Chuck Nelson is an American Hero

  March 28, 2017

  | Jeff Biggers

  In a time of so many challenges in coal country, his courage has given a generation of coal miners, Appalachians and community activists a reason to believe.