num_pages: 432
description: "... imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography." --Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday GlobeHer rallying cry was "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 why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever."
language: English
title: Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
titlecomplete: Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
characters: Mary Harris Jones
genres: Biography, Social Issues, Politics, Labor, Nonfiction, American History, Feminism, Biography Memoir, Unfinished, History
ratings_count: 244
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Biography
publisher: Hill and Wang