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8%OFFScott Martelle - Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West, First Paperback Edition - 9780813544199 - V9780813544199
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Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West, First Paperback Edition

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Description for Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West, First Paperback Edition Paperback. Explores the tale of political corruption and repression and immigrants' struggles against dominant social codes of race, ethnicity, and class. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.

By early April 1914, Colorado Governor Elias Ammons thought the violence in his state’s strike-bound southern coal district had eased enough that he could begin withdrawing the Colorado National Guard, deployed six months earlier as military occupiers. But Ammons misread the signals, and on April 20, 1914, a full-scale battle erupted between the remaining militiamen and armed strikers living in a tent colony at the small railroad town of Ludlow. Eight men were killed in the fighting, which culminated in the burning of the colony. The next day, the bodies of two women and eleven children were found suffocated in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813544199
SKU
V9780813544199
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About Scott Martelle
Scott Martelle, is a Los Angeles Times staff writer, and a veteran of the 1995 Detroit Newspaper Strike. A native of Maine who grew up in rural western New York, he lives with his wife and their two sons in Irvine, California. Visit Scott's website at www.scottmartelle.com

Reviews for Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West, First Paperback Edition
"Blood Passion is the definitive account of a major landmark in the American struggle for social justice. And the way Scott Martelle tells the story is splendid proof that history can both be written as vividly as a novel and also be documented with scrupulous care."
Adam Hochschild
author of Bury the Chains and King Leopold's Ghost
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