Goliath at Sunset

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Fresh from the projects and a stint in Vietnam Mike Shea hires into a sprawling shipyard south of the city at the height of Boston's racial clashes. When he encounters a ruthless company and a union leadership whose militancy has faded with the years Shea reaches across the yard's explosive color line to join and then lead a movement for justice and respect.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>As contracts for marine tankers are cancelled management ratchets down on the workforce igniting chaos and fear throughout the yard. Then a dangerously damaged tanker limps into the yard triggering hope for new work but forcing Shea and the welders to choose between risking their lives and losing their jobs.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Brandow's nine years working as a shipyard welder and union activist inspired </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Goliath At Sunset</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> a novel of the American working class.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Jon Brandow hits a home-run with his compelling and absorbing tale of the struggle for workers' rights in a Massachusetts shipyard. The book is simply marvelous and so completely absorbing I did not want to even pause in reading it. ~</span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Bill Fletcher Jr. author of The Man Who Changed Colors and The Man Who Fell From the Sky</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brandow weaves a telling text capturing diverse voices youthful energy and a shipyard's vocabulary and slang...Even if the reader is not a welder the workplace's cadence and challenges along with the pride in craft shines through... For an authentic working-class novel one can't go wrong with </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Goliath at Sunset. </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>~Mike Matejka </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Power at Work</strong></p>