Hello ,Exciting News! I am going to be a grandma! My son Brandon and his wife Clarice are expecting a baby in January, and I am absolutely thrilled!
Also thrilled to receive final hard cover
editions Irena's Children this week!
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to post a review, please hit reply at the top of this newsletter and let me know. First two people to reply, I'll send a copy. After that I'll draw a name for the third giveaway. "A cogent, well-documented, handsomely designed treatment of a heretofore forgotten hero of labor." So says Kirkus Reviews about Fannie Never
Flinched.
Kirkus is notorious for being the toughest review, so I was a little nervous when it was the first to come in, but it is a great review. I think it sums up the book perfectly. Read it here...
Other New Books on Labor Leaders |
Pete Seeger and his banjo crusaded for the rights of labor, the rights of people of color, and the First Amendment right to let his voice be heard. The folk singer also launched the successful campaign to clean up the Hudson River.
A picture book coming out
in September, tells the story of Mother Jones' children's march in 1903 to highlight the troubles of child labor.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was a contemporary of Fannie Sellins, and once told a friend, “I often wonder it wasn’t me they got.
Whenever I look at the picture of [Fannie] I wonder it’s not me lying on the ground.” Jones lived to be 100-years-old.
written by Monica Kulling and illustratrated by Felicita Sala, tells how the children marched to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, New York. The President did not come out to acknowledge them.
As female labor organizers, Fannie and Mother Jones were radical for their time.
The judge who sentenced Fannie
to jail in West Virginia declared it a disgrace to American womanhood for Fannie Sellins to work with the United Mine Workers.
Neither woman conformed to women's typical roles. Famous for her fierce spirit, Mother Jones once said, "You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes." Thanks for you time! Have you read a great book? Tell me about it. Have a burning question? Let me know. Until next week.... If you know someone who might enjoy my newsletter or books, please forward this e-mail. I will never spam you or sell your email
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