Mother Jones

... imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography. --Elizabeth Sherman The Boston Sunday GlobeHer rallying cry was famous: Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. A century ago Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes steel strikes railroad textile and brewery strikes Mother Jones was always there stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful. In this first biography of the most dangerous woman in America Elliott J. Gorn proves why in the words of Eugene V. Debs Mother Jones has won her way into the hearts of the nation''s toilers and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children''s children forever.