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Radical
Radicalized after a 15,000 mile journey through America during the Great Depression, Mel Fiske recounts his unusual stints as labor organizer and worker in steel mills, railroad roundhouses, freight-car assemblies, and tire factories--jobs that have since disappeared. He worked for newspapers in various states, once serving as correspondent for the Daily Worker in Washington, D.C., where he covered the rise of the Truman-McCarthy-Hoover Red Hunt that roiled our country through the Fifties. Fiske gives the reader his grunt's eye-view of life as a Marine in the Pacific—particularly the bloody but little-remembered battle for Peleliu. He tells of his family life in the Bronx and Brooklyn, whe...
Our Mother's War
Christina Radich and Daniel Fiske began dating in high school, back in 1972. This book is the unlikely result of their teen-aged romance. Christina wanted to capture her mother's story of life in Nazi-occupied Holland. She didn't know how or where to start. Dan suggested that his father, Mel, a former newspaper reporter, could steer her to the starting line. Mel advised Christina to get a recorder and tapes, and ask questions. For the next 15 or so years, she taped her mother's recollections up until her death in 1994. It took several years for Christina to find Lynette Bourne, a medical transcriber, to copy all the tapes. Then Christina brought the transcriptions to Mel Fiske more than ten ...
At Work in the Atomic City
Founded during World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a vital link in the U.S. military's atomic bomb assembly line-the site where scientists worked at a breakneck pace to turn tons of uranium into a few grams of the artificial element plutonium. At Work in the Atomic City explores the world of those workers and their efforts to form unions, create a community, and gain political rights over their city.
