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Harry Bridges
Labor Radical, Labor Legend
Inbunden, 2023
1488 kr
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Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association)The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. …
San Francisco Reds
Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958
Inbunden, 2024
1444 kr
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Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s CP from its founding through 1958. Cherny …
Coit Tower Murals
New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
Inbunden, 2024
1444 kr
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Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most of them in buon fresco, Nearly all of them drew upon the palette and style of Diego Rivera. The …
Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art
Häftad, 2017
453 kr
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Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist …
San Francisco Reds
Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958
Häftad, 2024
395 kr
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Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s CP from its founding through 1958. Cherny …
Harry Bridges
Labor Radical, Labor Legend
Häftad, 2024
467 kr
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Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association)The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. …
Coit Tower Murals
New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
Häftad, 2024
251 kr
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Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most of them in buon fresco, Nearly all of them drew upon the palette and style of Diego Rivera. The …
Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art
E-bok, 2017
585 kr
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Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco''s leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny''s masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist''s work with his increasingly leftist …
California Women and Politics
From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression
Av Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
515 kr
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In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women's political involvement in California's public life did not begin with suffrage, nor did it end there. Across the state, women had been deeply involved in politics long before …
Righteous Cause
The Life of William Jennings Bryan
Häftad, 1994
261 kr
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Three times the Democratic Party's nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908) and secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the post-Civil War economic growth.In A Righteous Cause: The Life of Williams Jennings Bryan, Robert …
American Politics in the Gilded Age
1868 - 1900
Häftad, 2014
556 kr
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Often Gilded-Age politics has been described as devoid of content or accomplishment, a mere spectacle to divert voters from thinking about the real issues of the day. But by focusing too closely on dramatic scandals and on the foibles of prominent politicians, many historians have tended to obscure …
Short History of San Francisco
Häftad, 2026
280 kr
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When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a "compound for cattle"—hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanish California. Today San Francisco is a bustling metropolis with picturesque neighborhoods, dramatic …
Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art
Inbunden, 2017
1444 kr
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Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist …
