| Haymarket Contributor(s): Duberman, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583226184 ISBN-13: 9781583226186 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2004 Annotation: A historically faithful first novel that brings to life late 19th century Chicago and a handful of remarkable individuals who were willing to dedicate and ultimately give up their lives for what they believed in: human dignity for every person. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - History - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003014163 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.34" W x 9.3" (1.35 lbs) 330 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Illinois |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On the night of May 4, 1886, during a peaceful demonstration of labor activists in Haymarket Square in Chicago, a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of police -trying to disperse the crowd. The officers immediately opened fire, killing a number of protestors and wounding some two hundred others. Albert Parsons was the best-known of those hanged; Haymarket is his story. Parsons, humanist and autodidact, was an ex-Confederate soldier who grew up in Texas in the 1870s, and fell in love with Lucy Gonzalez, a vibrant, outspoken black woman who preferred to describe herself as of Spanish and Creole descent. The novel tells the story of their lives together, of their growing political involvement, of the formation of a colorful circle of co-conspirators-immigrants, radical intellectuals, journalists, advocates of the working class-and of the events culminating in bloodshed. More than just a moving story of love and human struggle, more than a faithful account of a watershed event in United States history, Haymarket presents a layered and dynamic revelation of late nineteenth-century Chicago, and of the lives of a handful of remarkable individuals who were willing to risk their lives for the promise of social change. |