| Haymarket Contributor(s): Duberman, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583226710 ISBN-13: 9781583226711 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: "Duberman skillfully intertwines the known historical record of this event that brought so much negative attention to Chicago. . . . Duberman has given Haymarket a more human countenance."-Robert Walch, "San Francisco Chronicle" "Easy to read and bursting with history."-"The Seattle Times" A true-to-history account of the Chicago Haymarket riot of 1886, "Haymarket" brings the passion and turmoil of the late-nineteenth-century labor movement to life. A remarkable, beautifully told tale of love, dissent and self-sacrifice. Martin Duberman is a distinguished professor of history at the City University of New York and the author of some 20 books, including the Bancroft Prize-winner "Charles Francis Adams," |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.28" W x 9.16" (0.97 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Locality - Chicago, 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. |