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Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas (1998, Paperback, Reprint) 
Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 1998-07-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0684846179
ISBN-13: 9780684846170
Product ID: EPID306054
Description: An account of the social unrest that rocked the American West in the early years of the 20th century. When the ex-governor of Idaho was murdered by an assassin's bomb, Pinkerton detective James McFarland kidnaps labor leader Bill Haywood...
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Synopsis
An account of the social unrest that rocked the American West in the early years of the 20th century. When the ex-governor of Idaho was murdered by an assassin's bomb, Pinkerton detective James McFarland kidnaps labor leader Bill Haywood and brings him to Idaho to stand trial. During a period of great labor unrest, this became one of the fiercest labor-vs.-capital struggles ever waged.

Details
Publication Date:1998-07-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:875 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.8 in
Weight:39.2 oz

Publisher's Note
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author weaves what may be his most brilliant narrative, dramatizing the class struggle of turn-of-the-century America as it frames a sensational 1905 murder case. 24-page photo insert.

Industry Reviews
"Lukas does not come to condemn. He is an observer. The masses of careful detail convince us of his impartiality. Thanks to his prodigious research, unobtrusively marshalled, fixing all the characters in the dense social weave of their time, we can not only see them clearly but see through them."
New York Review of Books - Garry Wills

"It is characteristic of this book that a detail likely to have been overlooked by a less zealous researcher provides Lukas with a powerful clue to the question that nags the reader throughout. Lukas' informed speculation provides a satisfying ending to a deeply rewarding book, one that will endure as a capstone to the career of a passionate, honest and troubled man."
New York Times - Richard Bernstein (10/08/1997)

"Profoundly absorbing....Lukas has woven a wonderfully rich tapestry."
Washington Post Book World - Staughton Lynd

"A drama of epic proportions....Vast, detailed, colorful, at once analytical and driven by a storyline in the best manner of journalism. It might very well win for Lukas his third Pulitzer Prize."
Wall Street Journal - Kevin Starr

"A brilliant but flawed portrait of class warfare in early-20th-century America."
Bush

"The events that Lukas so clearly and compellingly describes in this book make clear how fiercely the passions of class hatred have sometimes burned in our national past."
Stasio

"What 'Big Time' reminds us now is that there was a time in this century when ordinary Americans were acutely aware of the links between social inequality and simple justice, or the lack thereof."
Kakutani

"J. Anthony Lukas has done much more than exhume one of the most dramatic trials of the century; he has excavated a stratum of American history, tracing the fault line of class that sundered society in another time, and persists in our own."
Brantley

"'Big Trouble' is...brilliant...a sprawling mix of freight train narrative, prodigious intellect, and obsessive research."
Gosse

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