Tragedies and Fortunes

As a boy in the 1930s Kenneth Moore experienced the misery of the Great Depression firsthand. When he grew up after having watched President Franklin Roosevelt work furiously to rescue a population from joblessness and poverty Moore became a union organizer and executive in the positions of international vice president of BRT and UTU.</P><P>Over a lifetime of fighting for the working man and woman Moore faced death threats a stabbing a robbery and relentless opposition. He traveled the world for the cause of labor and witnessed history. Now Moore looks back on that life in a sweeping memoir that is the story of a man a movement a family tapestry and a rich meditation on some pivotal and horrific moments of the past: Hiroshima (with never-before-released survivor interviews) the Holocaust and the atrocities done to Native Americans.</P><P><I>Tragedies and Fortunes</I> is a fascinating insider's look at the rise of organized labor and the times in which it came to be. It's a tale of heroes and villains of struggles against greed and triumphs for good. It's a great American story a life lived in devotion to a cause and one man's lessons from the past that may help all of us make better choices for our future.</P>