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Article: A compelling look at the remarkable Mother Jones
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- April 5, 2001
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A compelling look at the remarkable Mother Jones
By JAMES ASHER
Baltimore Sun
Thursday, April 5, 2001
Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. By Elliott J.
Gorn. Hill and Wang. 408 pages. $27.
America quaked in the decades after the Civil War. The Plains
Indians were at war. The nation's cities were swollen with
immigration. The industrialization of the country was well under way,
marking the beginning of the end of an agrarian society.
Former slaves tested their freedom. Coal was being gouged from the