This book tells an epic story. The Point of Pittsburgh is about how one city was the key to the industrial development that made the United States a world power and how the struggle of the region's people for democratic rights and a decent standard of living was central to the creation of the American middle class.

This book tells an epic story. The Point of Pittsburgh is about how one city was the key to the industrial development that made the United States a world power and how the struggle of the region's people for democratic rights and a decent standard of living was central to the creation of the American middle class.