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Article: Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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- Business History Review
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- January 1, 2001
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. By Elliott J. Gorn. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. xiii + 408 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN 0-809-07093-6.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was a legendary figure in the annals of American labor. An icon of working-class resistance, courage, and stamina, her battle cry- "pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living"-stirred countless thousands engaged in the struggle for economic justice from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s. She was a larger-than-life figure shrouded in myth long before 1930, when she was laid to rest at Mount Olive cemetery in Illinois. Hers is a story well worth telling, and Elliott ...