Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Lara Vapnek teaches at St. John's University, in New York City. She specializes in the history of gender, labour, and politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States. Her previous publications include Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009), as well as several articles on women's labour history. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.Series Editor Carol Berkin is a well-known women's historian and the author of many popular and scholarly books, including Civil War Wives. She is Professor of History Emerita at the Graduate centre of the City University of New York, and she is a member of the Society of American Historians.

"For educators keen to include women in the American story, but hampered by the lack of thoughtful, concise scholarship, here comes 'Lives of American Women,' embracing Abigail Adams's counsel to John--'remember the ladies.' And high time, too!" --Lesley S. Herrmann, Executive Director, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History "These books are, above all, fascinating stories that will engage and inspire readers. They offer a glimpse into the lives of key women in history who either defied tradition or who successfully maneuvered in a man's world to make an impact. The stories of these vital contributors to American history deliver just the right formula for instructors looking to provide a more complicated and nuanced view of history." --Rosanne Lichatin, 2005 Gilder Lehrman Preserve America History Teacher of the Year "Students both in the general survey course and in specialized offerings like my course on U.S. women's history can get a great understanding of an era from a short biography. Learning a lot about a single but complex character really helps to deepen appreciation of what women's lives were like in the past." --Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Series Editor Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction 1 East Side Joan of Arc -- Early life 2 Wobbly Agitator -- Fights for Free Speech 3 Building Solidarity with the IWW -- Landmark strikes 4 The Question of Violence 5 Defending Workers during the Red Scare 6 "No Present Prospects of Returning East" -- Oregon interlude 7 My Second Life -- the Communist Party 8 Flynn Fights Fascism -- World War II 9 Liberty Denied -- the Cold War 10 "Mortal Enemy of Capitalism" -- Last years Primary Sources Glossary Study Questions Notes Annotated Bibliography Index