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Elliott J. Gorn,Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. 416 pp. $27.00 cloth; $14.00 paper.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2002
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Mother Jones is legendary. Her courageous and unrelenting militancy, spirited and quotable speeches, and gutsy flaunting of convention have made her a hero for twentieth century labor organizers, feminists, and social justice activists. In this captivating biography, Elliott Gorn illuminates Mother Jones by uncovering her self-created persona whom the author contextualizes in the contours of social and political history. Gorn's arguments are constructed around two main themes: How gender identity determined Jones' work and how historical truth and the creation of myth bolstered her causes.
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