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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. By James Green (New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. Pp. 383. Maps, Illus., motes, index. Cloth, $26.95).
The events have a contemporary feel: business magnates earning fabulous wealth that, in turn, exacerbated the era's widespread political corruption; large numbers of workers displaced by economic and technological changes; waves of immigrants prompting debates over whether such outsiders could be absorbed into the larger American society; a public fearful of conspirators in ...
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