... imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography. --Elizabeth Sherman; The Boston Sunday GlobeHer rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago; Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator; the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes; steel strikes; railroad; textile; and brewery strikes; Mother Jones was always there; stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful. In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America;" Elliott J. Gorn proves why; in the words of Eugene V. Debs; Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers; and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever."
#2144074 in Books The University of North Carolina Press 2012-08-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.20 x .90 x 6.10l; 1.05 #File Name: 0807872628328 pages
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Montygreat5 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Ronald Formisano's "For the People"By Klaus HansenI think I can do no better than quote from the review by Mark Voss-Hubbard in the December '08 issue of the "Journal of American History":"This long-anticipated original work of synthesis cements Ronald P. Formisano's reputation as one of this generation's most gifted political historians. 'For the People' masterfully draws on diverse literatures in political theory; political history; social history; and gender history to offer fresh intepretations of Americna Populist movements from the Revolution to the 1850s".
