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Gorn provides the first comprehensive biography of this remarkable American, the woman whom the poet Carl Sandburg called 'a wonder.''-BOOK JACKET. With flaming speeches and sensational street theater, Mother Jones exposed disturbing truths about child labor, the poverty of working families, and the destruction of American freedoms - and legends of her bravery before gun-toting thugs and frequent imprisonments grew almost overnight.'. Men and women, young and old, rallied around Mother Jones, fighting with her for the rights of workers in an age when families lived on a dollar a day and bosses told them to be thankful for it.

Then she recreated herself as Mother Jones, and became one of the most famous women in America. She had survived the Irish potato famine, the death of her husband and children of yellow fever, and the great Chicago fire, and was facing the hard life of a seamstress growing old alone. 'When Mary Jones began her career as a 'hell-raiser,' as she put it, she was as obscure as an American could be - poor, female, elderly, Irish, and widowed. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful.'. 'Her rallying cry was famous: 'Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.' Mother Jones (1837-1930) was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of protest movements in the early twentieth century. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you.

Mother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn