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It's a Reality Read, told with intense honesty and humor, often irreverantly. Dee Horwitz, a journalist whose career spans more than 70 years, takes a candid look at her family and her life to find the life-altering experiences that transform a naive and trusting farmer's daughter into a sassy and outspoken senior. Dee looks at her heritage, her childhood, love, marriages,careers, her interest in painting and bridge. She tells how she has dealt with alcoholism, Alzheimers and sex discrimination. She shares her opinions on religion, sex and revenge and offers many practical ideas on how to mentally and physically enjoy those latter years of our life. Dee becomes a columnist for a daily newspaper at 13,and continues writing throughout her life. She works at different jobs so she can go to collge , marries the first man who seduces her, raises four children. When she finds that she has to go to work to feed her family, her life changes. And so does her personality. She becomes a leader in the feminist movement and finds a man who matches her intellect and shares her views. Alone, an octogenarian, still active, still writing, she loves life and new experiences.
Travel with the authors from 19th century Russia to St. Paul, Minnesota to discover the true identity of Samuel Bronstien, the founder of the United States Bedding Co. Despite the jealousy and resentment that often exists in a family, Samuel, his wife and children work together to make the business the leading bedding company in the Upper Midwest. When the three sons retire from the company the third generation takes over. Edward Bronstien Jr., the new president, makes tough decisions to take the company - now popularly called King Koil -- to a leader in the industry, and to its ultimate sale. You'll discover how an acquisition almost failed and how the sale of the company affected the family. Over 25 years later, when Horwitz and Bronstien decide to write a book about the family and the bedding business, they discover a leather envelope containing papers and documents - some 144 years old. The real name of Samuel Bronstien is revealed: Simcha Shapotshnick! And the envelope unveils much more about the family he left in Russia.
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Worked Over is a book about large-scale social change seen at close range, through the lives of generations of working people in a small manufacturing center along New York State's old Erie Canal. Their compelling stories add a new dimension to current debates over corporate power and the public good. Dimitra Doukas draws on ten years of ethnographic and historical research on the Mohawk River Valley towns of Herkimer, Illion, Frankfort, and Mohawk, where the Remington company, maker of arms and typewriters among other things, was for many years the backbone of a thriving regional society. Corporate takeover of the varied Remington enterprises in 1886 sent shock waves through this society, u...