Charles Ambrose McCarthy

In the literature about the Molly Macguire movement of the second half of the nineteenth century, this book stands out as one of the strangest and least useful. This book was written by a man who had a vested interest in proving that the Molly Macguires did not exist and that all charges were trumped up. He is/was a conspiracy theorist nut who doesn't even do a good job of building a case. He makes holocaust deniers seem credible and mainstream. This book is of interest only as a curiosity but is of no academic use whatsoever.… (meer)