Mother Jones the Miners' Angel: A Portrait

by Dale Fetherling

This biography details the legacy of the most extraordinary woman labor agita?tor 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 be?cause 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809308967
• ISBN13: 9780809308965
• Release Date: February 1979
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.9"