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Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel
by Stegner, Wallace
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1969. Third edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus. 381pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 rust cloth with deep red cloth boards. The front board is a bit warped and the spine ends are gently rubbed. In the dust jacket with prominent sunning to the spine (title still bold), light rubbing and chipping to the edges, and a small closed tear backed with old tape along the top edge of the front panel. Jacket corner clipped, however $6.95 price still intact. Originally published as 'The Preacher and the Slave'. Winner of the Irving and Jean Stone Award for best biographical novel of 1969. Colberg A11.3.a.
Synopsis
Blending fact with fiction, Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill—the Wobbly bard who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was executed for the alleged murder of a Salt Lake City businessman. Organizer, agitator, "Labor's Songster"—a rebel from the skin inwards, with an absolute faith in the One Big Union—Joe Hill fought tirelessly in the frequently violent battles between organized labor and industry. But though songs and stories still vaunt him, and his legend continues to inspire those who feel the injustices he fought against, Joe Hill may not have been a saintly crusader and may have been motivated by impulses darker than the search for justice. Joe Hill is a full-bodied portrait of both the man and the myth: from his entrance into the short-lived Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. His famous last words: "Don't waste time mourning. Organize." "A genuinely powerful novel of labor as it once was in the U.S." — San Francisco Chronicle .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66068
- Title
- Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third edition, first printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- STEGNER; IWW; JOE HILL
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