Growing up in Sacramento, Steffens (1866-1936) was an editor at the NY Evening Post, later at McClure’s Magazine. As popular as he was cantankerous, he brushed shoulders with presidents & corporate barons, tsars & dictators. His efforts to expose corruption took him all over the nation & on to Mexico, Europe & the new USSR, where he made his famous proclamation, ‘I have seen the future, & it works!’ He would later become disenchanted with Soviet communism, & eventually he returned to California, to feel again its ‘warm, colorful force of beauty’ & to write what would become this best-selling memoir. Inspiring, entertaining & lyrical, The Autobiography is the story of a brilliant reporter with a passion for examining the complex & contradictory conditions that breed corruption, poverty & misery.AcknowledgmentsA Boy on HorsebackSeeing New York FirstMuckrakingRevolutionSeeing America LastIllustrationsIndex

    From the 1890s to the 1930s, hardly a year passed without a serious—and often deadly—clash between workers and management. Written in the 1930s, and with a new introduction by Mike Davis, Dynamite recounts a fascinating and largely forgotten history of class and labor struggle in America’s industrial beginnings.It is the story of brutal exploitation, massacres, and judicial murders of the workers. It is also the story of their response: when peaceful strikes yielded no results, workers fought back by any means necessary.Louis Adamic has written the classic story of labor conflict in America, detailing many episodes of labor violence, including the Molly Maguires, the Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Colorado Labor Wars, the Los Angeles Times bombing, as well as the case of Sacco and Vanzetti.

    A beautifully written story of America's historical heritage, by one of the country's greatest historians.

    Southern Classics Series.

    His autobiography had been eagerly awaited as Rostron had been captain of the ocean liner CARPATHIA and acted decisively on the night of 14/15 April 1912 racing to the rescue of the 705 survivors of the TITANIC disaster. Although he gave extensive witness evidence at the British and American enquiries it was in this book that he delivered the full story of his involvement in the rescue. This new illustrated edition features many rare images of the rescue of the TITANIC survivors. About the Author Arthur Rostron was born in 1869 in Bolton. He sailed with the British Merchant Navy, the Royal Navy Reserve (serving in the First World War) and retired as a Commodore of the Cunard Line. He died on 4 November 1940 and was survived by his wife and four children.

    He published his account of the fire in 1874. The late William Converse Haygood served as editor of the Wisconsin Magazine of History from 1957 to 1975. He prepared this version of Father Pernin's account on the occasion of the Peshtigo Fire's centennial in 1971. Foreword writer Stephen J. Pyne is a professor at Arizona State University in Tempe and author of numerous books on wildland fire, including Fire in America.