Wheeling's Polonia M. Bartley Seigel Most biographers of Luther are

Most biographers of Luther are faced with a choice-focus on Luther's life or focus on his thought

the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared

expertly crafted and fiendishly devoured

Dispel discipline problems with new classroom management techniques

and flexible thinking about people and their behavior

Wheeling's Polonia M. Bartley Seigel Most biographers of Luther areWilliam Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, while shifting from urban historians' traditional focus on large cities to a case study in a smaller Appalachian setting.