Language English Media type Print (Hardback) OCLC 1053253 Genre Novel | Publication date 1963 Pages 347 Originally published 1963 Page count 347 Country United Kingdom | |
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Publishers Doubleday (US), Victor Gollancz Ltd (UK) Similar This Sweet and Bitter Earth, Song of the Earth, The Fire People, The Hosts of Rebecca, Rape of the Fair Country | ||
The Race of the Tiger is an historical novel by the Welsh writer Alexander Cordell (1914–1997) set in mid-19th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It is a family saga of the O'Haras of County Connemara, Ireland, who flee the English yoke to make their fortune in the New World, where iron barons such as Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick thrive in an era of unprecedented industrial growth. Labor agitation, violence, and the Molly Maguire movement erupt in Pittsburgh's steel industry when the new Bessemer process throws many Irish immigrants out of work in the 1870s.
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