Lane Kirkland : champion of American labor / Arch Puddington.
Lane Kirkland : champion of American labor / Arch Puddington.
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Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, c2005.
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N331.88092/ 10
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English
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Physical content
ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Prologue: "all sinners belong in the church" -- Southern roots -- Education of a trade unionist -- Expanding horizons -- Captain of the ship -- Labor versus Reagan -- All out for Fritz -- Solidarity forever -- Central America: fighting the good fight at home and abroad -- Mr. Democracy -- Labor unit...
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Publisher
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, c2005.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c2005.
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Summary
"In Lane Kirkland, political writer Arch Puddington traces one man's steady rise to the most powerful position in organized labor, a position many claimed, with only slight exaggeration, was more important than the presidency of the United States.".
This biography also reveals how the positive transforming events of the New Deal in the South and Kirkland's enlistment in World War II shaped his lifelong political convictions that the United States possessed the strength and the wealth to expand freedom throughout the world and promote the welfare of its own people." "From the Old South to the N...
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Lane Kirkland : champion of American labor / Arch Puddington.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N331.88092/ 10
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74VKq6jlz35A
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ISBN
0471416940 (cloth)
9780471416944 (cloth)
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331.88092
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991020193599702626
