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Article: Mother Jones: America's Most Dangerous Woman
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- July 1, 2008
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Mother Jones: America's Most Dangerous Woman (2007)
Mother Jones: America's Most Dangerous Woman (2007)
Directed by Rosemary Feurer and Laura Vazquez.
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23 minutes.
This gritty documentary about the union agitator Upton Sinclair caled the "living wrath of God" contains the only existing "live" footage of Mother Jones. The 47-second medium close-up captures a great American orator speaking with the lilting cadence of righteous indignation, grown faint, on her "honorary" 100th birthday: "You know I am considered a Bolshevik, and a red, and an IWW [International Workers of the World], and a radical, and I admit to being all they Ve charged me with. I'm anything that ...