{"product_id":"riders-in-the-night-hardcover","title":"Riders in the Night - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarry Harrison Kroll\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was just before the turn of the century that James B. Duke, after whom Duke University is named, managed to combine nearly all the large foreign and American tobacco interests into a single gigantic trust under the aegis of the American Tobacco Company. His grand enterprise in hand, this son of a one-mule tobacco farmer in North Carolina began an unscrupulous exploitation of the tobacco farmers of Kentucky and Tennessee, depressing prices for their leaf through his utter control of the market. The growers, sorely stricken with poverty, found themselves unable to abide the yet more dismal conditions that Duke's operation brought about, and even less the heedless impositions of power of his hated trust. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiders in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the revolt of the tobacco growers against the American Tobacco Company, and the organization of a resistance movement known as the \"Night Riders,\" which undertook by whip, firebrand, and gun to break the hold of the \"Trust.\" The sequence of most active violence spanned three years. The \"Hillbillies,\" growers who continued to deal with the Trust, were forcefully brought into the fold and made to take the secret oath of the Riders. The folk of the hills and hollows met in school­houses, churches, and at crossroads and united against the Trust and the law­-and-order-minded townspeople to do by violence what the slow-moving law in Washington was not doing--restore competition to the tobacco market. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book are vividly depicted the capture of towns, the incendiarism of millions of dollars in Trust tobacco, midnight floggings, the destruction of crops, and the personal tales of many of the individuals who labored and fought on both sides. Harry Harrison Kroll writes from the point of view of an eyewitness and provides the pungent scenes and dialogues that do not usually find their way into history. His book is not only an accurate delineation of the largest violent uprising in United States history short of the Civil War, but offers an intimate sense of life in tobacco country.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Harrison Kroll was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. He published more than a dozen books, many of which have been issued in England and Canada and have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and other languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 1965\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47877594054877,"sku":"9781512803266","price":156.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Kra5_IS5GB9781512803266.webp?v=1777884864","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/riders-in-the-night-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}