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The Astors
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Revolution in Seattle
The Seattle General Strike of 1919 was America's first citywide labor stoppage, a defiant example of workers' power in the aftermath of World War I. Told in gripping detail by one of the era's great labor journalists, Revolution in Seattle captures the dramatic dynamics of workers organizing strike committees to take control of their city from below. Republished on the tenth anniversary of the 1999 "Battle in Seattle" against the World Trade Organization, Harvey O'Connor's book offers lessons and inspiration to a new generation of rebels. Harvey O'Connor was a seminal labor journalist and historian, whose work exposed the greed of the depression-era "robber barons" and labor struggles nationwide.
The Empire of Oil
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Harvey and Jessie
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The Guggenheims
Chiefly the life story of successful entrepreneur and business magnate Meyer Guggenheim including his genealogy and family history as well as the history of his multiple business enterprises. The son of Simon Guggenheim, Meyer was born in 1828 in Ober-Lengnau, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Fleeing religious persecution and oppression in Switzerland the Simon Guggenheim family, along with family friend Rachel Myers and her family, emigrated in 1847 (via Hamburg) to America landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Soon after arriving in America, Father Simon Guggenheim (1792-1869) married widow Rachel Myers. In about 1852 in Philadelphia, Meyer Guggenheim took his stepsister Barbara Myers (1834...
Munitions Industry
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Hearings
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It Did Happen Here
In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country. Disturbing and provocative, It Did Happen Here is must-reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country has been built.
