Elliott J. Gorn
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Includes sections on "James "Deaf" Burke, Joe Coburn, James Corbett, Mike Donovan, Theodore Dreiser, Pierce Egan, Richard Kyle Fox, Ned Hammond, William Hazlitt, John Heenan, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Tom Hyer, George Kensett, Jake (Joseph Killion) Kilrain, Jon "Country" McCleester, Tom Molineaux, John "Old Smoke" Morrissey, Tom O'Donnell, Frank Queen, Theodore Roosevelt, John L. Sullivan, "Yankee" Sullivan"
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[2018]
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"Everyone knows the story of the murder of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy was murdered in Mississippi for having--supposedly--flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was working behind the counter of a store. Emmett was taken from the home of a relative later that night by white men; three days later, his naked body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's...
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Her 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...
