A compelling look at the remarkable Mother Jones

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: April 5, 2001| Author: JAMES ASHER | Copyright information

A compelling look at the remarkable Mother Jones

By JAMES ASHER

Baltimore Sun

Thursday, April 5, 2001

Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. By Elliott J. Gorn. Hill and Wang. 408 pages. $27.

America quaked in the decades after the Civil War. The Plains Indians were at war. The nation's cities were swollen with immigration. The industrialization of the country was well under way, marking the beginning of the end of an agrarian society.

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