Ordeal of the Union
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Mark Wahlgren Summers
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1469617579
Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction
Author : Hermann H. Field
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804744317
The disappearance behind the Iron Curtain of the American brothers Noel and Hermann Field in 1949, followed by that of Noels wife and their foster daughter, was one of the most publicized international mysteries of the Cold War. This dual memoir gives an intensely human dimension to that struggle, with Hermann narrating all that happened to him from the day he was abducted from the Warsaw airport to his release five years later, and Kate relating her unrelenting efforts to find her husband. Thousands of potential victims of Hitlers dragnet were rescued in 1939 and during World War II through separate efforts of the Field brothers. Arrested in Czechoslovakia in 1949, Noel was taken to Hungary and used as an example of American perfidy in show trials. Hermann went to Poland primarily to find out what had happened to his brother. After Hermanns abduction, he was taken to the cellar of a secret Polish prison, where he was held for five years. He gives us a detailed account of his battle to survive, alternating despair and horror with mordant humor. Meanwhile, his family had no idea whether he was still alive and if so, where. This moving story, based on detailed notes made by the authors during and shortly after the events described, presents an inside-outside counterpoint, as Hermanns chapters on his inward journey in his cellar world alternate with Kates efforts in London to find him by scrutinizing accounts of political events in Eastern Europe for clues and penetrating the diplomatic corridors of power in the West for help. Hermann had been arrested by a Polish security agent who later defected and became one of the Wests most important informants on Soviet operations in Eastern Europe. The search for the Field brothers was complicated by their history of leftist connections, for this tense period in the Cold War was also the era of McCarthyism in the United States. The book ends with an Epilogue that analyzes the events of fifty years ago in the light of what we know today, as the result of newly available archival material.
Author : David Bates
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0809337452
Between 1910 and 1920, the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) inaugurated a massive organizing drive in the city’s meatpacking and steel industries. Although the CFL sought legitimately progressive goals, worked earnestly to organize an interracial union, and made major inroads among both black and white workers, their efforts resulted in a bitter defeat. David Bates provides a clear picture of how even the most progressive of intentions can be ground to a halt. By organizing workers into neighborhood locals, which connected workplace struggles to ethnic and religious identities, the CFL facilitated a surge in the organization’s membership, particularly among African American workers, and afforded the federation the opportunity to aggressively confront employers. The CFL’s innovative structure, however, was ultimately its demise. Linking union locals to neighborhoods proved to be a form of de facto segregation. Over time union structures, rank-and-file conflicts, and employer resistance combined to turn the union’s hopeful calls for solidarity into animosity and estrangement. Tensions were exacerbated by violent shop floor confrontations and exploded in the bloody 1919 Chicago Race Riot. By the early 1920s, the CFL had collapsed. The Ordeal of the Jungle explores the choices of a variety of people while showing a complex, overarching interplay of black and white workers and their employers. In addition to analyzing union structures and on-the-ground relations between workers, Bates synthesizes and challenges previous scholarship on interracial organizing to explain the failure of progressive unionism in Chicago.
Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A reminder that the buisness of war is killing, this study recounts the hellish realms of Civil War combat. Drawing upon letters, diaries and memoirs of Northern soldiers, it reveals not only their deepest fears and shocks, but also their sources of inner strengths.
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780020354413
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667623753
A successful, middle-aged novelist with a case of 'bad nerves,' Gilbert Pinfold embarks on a recuperative trip to Ceylon. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, loud revival meetings. He can only infer that somewhere concealed in his room an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship. And then, instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But they are not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frightening intimate way, about him!
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN :