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Smart choice. Ross MacDonald's "The Doomsters" here.
Just finished that recently. Should be required reading.Funny, I'm reading Sinclair's "The Jungle" at the moment. My great grandparents and my grandparents both worked the Yards in Chicago, and my father grew up in the back of the yards for the first 5 years of his life, so it's something that's always interested me.
my grandparents both worked the Yards in Chicago, and my father grew up in the back of the yards for the first 5 years of his life, so it's something that's always interested me.
Upton Sinclair's 1919 novel "Jimmie Higgins," the story of a small-town machinist who becomes involved with the labor movement and ultimately finds his way onto the front lines of the first World War. Jimmie is one of the "little people" in any movement, who does the petition-circulating, the event-organizing, the door-to-door canvassing, and never gets his name in the paper, but without him, no movement could ever grow. To this day in many labor-oriented groups, such small-time community organizing is called "Jimmie Higgins work."
FF, holding off on that one. Let us know what you think as I trust your judgement. Down here in Bama, bookstores are offering refunds.
FF, thought you might find this interesting.
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I'm the same as you in regards to criticism of what I want to read or see. Hope I didn't cause any undo influence.
The Coldest Winter.
I think I need to learn much more about the Korean War.