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[J. Anthony Lukas] ✓ Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America · Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America As he walked home that night, he sensed all about him the bold, exuberant, unashamedly acquisitive spirit of Caldwell's young entrepreneurs, who -- as his brother had written -- were "here for the money." Like so many in the West at that time, these brothers believed their prospects for enriching themselves were limitless, that the future opened wide before them. J. From the author of Common Ground -- one of the most acclaimed books of recent years -- comes a grand narrative of the United
| Title | : | Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684808587 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 880 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Here are the histories not simply of mining, railroads, and unions, but of detectives, "modern" journalism, baseball, land speculation, and frontier-town boosterism. He was 64 and, according to many accounts, had finally surrendered to a lifelong despair over what he saw as his inability to meet his own exceedingly high literary standards. "The more I delved into Boston's crisis," he writes in the foreword to Big Trouble, "the more I found the conundrums of race and class inextricably intertwined." Class simply wasn't as overt an issue as race in contemporary society. The story begins with the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, an ex- governor of Idaho. His last work is a well-told tale of the struggle between labor and capitalists in the West at a time when entire state legislatures were effectively owned by corporate interests and America teetered on the brink of open class warfare. Yet in reading Big Trouble
As he walked home that night, he sensed all about him the bold, exuberant, unashamedly acquisitive spirit of Caldwell's young entrepreneurs, who -- as his brother had written -- were "here for the money." Like so many in the West at that time, these brothers believed their prospects for enriching themselves were limitless, that the future opened wide before them. J. From the author of Common Ground -- one of the most acclaimed books of recent years -- comes a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century. Big Trouble begins on a snowy evening at Christmas time 1905 in the little town of Caldwell, Idaho, to which the state's former governor, Frank Steunenberg, had returned to head his family bank while contempl
John A. Lefcourte said A Brilliant overview of America 100 years ago. Don't read this book if all you want to know about is the murder trial of Bill Haywood, defended by Clarence Darrow, and others- that is only the thread upon which the book hangs. The diversions are what make the book unique and which provide the varied dimensions that make one sense,and feel, in three dimensions, life at the turn of the last century. It is a stereopticon view. It is hard to conceive of a. How it actually was and what might have been Stephen M. Kerwick Lukas' book is a wonderful, enjoyable read that provides a superlative feel for the realities of the turn of the century American West. Behind the engaging writing however, there is a much greater virtue in the demythologizing of several of the cardboard champions of American history, particularly Clarence Darrow and the organized labor movement. Lukas demonstrates beyond reasonable hope of rebuttal that . "A theme approached from many angles" according to Randy Stapilus. Just one of the sad aspects of Anthony Lukas' death so shortly after finishing Big Trouble is that he wasn't around to talk much about his intent. The book is typically described as a narrative about the Haywood trial - a Big Event on its own merits, to be sure - but that's not really what it is. The trial is the hook, the thread holding the rest together organizationally, but it's only a piece, and seems
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