Mother Jones the Miners' Angel: A Portrait (Arcturus Paperbacks ; Ab 145)
By Dale Fetherling.
Description
This biography details the legacy of the most extraordinary woman labor agitator in American history. The life of Mother Jones “is an epic, and it is the shame of American writers that it has never been told,” George West wrote in the Nation in July 1922. “She is a great woman,” he added, “unsung because of our tradition of cheap gentility.” The truth of West’s lament has endured until now. Mother Jones lived a century. Born in 1830, widowed in 1867 in Memphis, and suffering the loss of her husband and four children from yellow f...
ISBN(s)
0809306433, 9780809306435
