Examines "the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened; riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities. This epochal tale offers ... portraits of two iconic characters of the age"--Publisher marketing.
Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Published by: St Martin's Press
Available in: Hardcover (9781250128867)