Workers' militias, bombs, anarchists, unions, and the struggle for the eight-hour day culminated in the Haymarket riot set in fire-ravaged Chicago. This is the true story of Lucy and Albert Parsons, the political storm that swirled around them and the men who were hung for practicing free speech too recklessly. Bendetti's narrative is both vigorous and engrossing. Presenting Albert and Lucy Parsons's stories in fictional style, he uses documents, biographic materials, court records, and first person accounts to recreate dialog and action that is history—a history that is swiftly paced and alive with all the drama of frantic real life.
Dimensions: 5.5 X 8.5," 206 pages
Materials: Softcover book
Robert Benedetti
(Chicago)
Robert Benedetti is the author of The Long Italian Goodbye and an Emmy and Peabody award winning director.
Charles H. Kerr Publishing
(South Chicago)
Founded by Charles Hope Kerr, a son of abolitionists, in 1886, Charles H. Kerr Publishing is the oldest continuously running radical publisher in the US, offering "subversive literature for the whole family." Close to the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World, Kerr brought out many Marxist classics, including the first complete English edition of Capital (1906–1909), as well as works by anarchist Peter Kropotkin, feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage, Irish revolutionist James Connolly, animal rights crusader J. Howard Moore, such noted U.S. socialists as Eugene V. Debs, “Mother” Jones, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Gustavus Myers, Carl Sandburg, William D. Haywood, Mary E. Marcy—whose Shop Talks on Economics (1911) sold over two million copies—and, more recently, Staughton Lynd, C. L. R. James, and Carlos Cortez.