Bücher von Patrick Renshaw

In this new edition of his classic study of the Industrial Workers of the World, Mr. Renshaw tells the story of how they planned to combine the American working class, and eventually wage earners all over the world, into one big labor union with an industrial basis, a syndicalist philosophy, and a revolutionary aim. "A sensible and penetrating examination....Topical even today."-Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times.

Professor Richard Carwardine, St Catherine's College, Oxford; calls this work, a fresh and vividly written account, of Franklin D.Roosevelt's life, covering his early days in one of the nation's oldest and richest families; the effect of the polio that ravaged him in his prime; and the role of his early political career and his 12-year presidency.