We, the People: The Drama of America

✍ Scribed by Leo Huberman

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Series: The Leo Huberman People’s Library
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A history of labour and the labour movement in the USA, originally published in the 1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: Here They Come! - Beginnings - Are All Men Equal? - Molasses and Tea - "In Order To Form a More Perfect Union" - A Rifle, An Axe - A Strange, Colourful Frontier, The Last - The Manufacturing North - The Agricultural South - Landlords Fight Money Lords - Materials, Men, Machinery, Money - More Materials, Men, Machinery, Money - The Have-nots vs The Haves - From Rags To Riches - From Riches To Rags - The New Deal..Relief - . Recovery - .Reform - .Foreign Policy - "You Guys Gotta Organize" -

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Preface to Revised Edition

Part I
I. Here They Come!
II. Beginnings
III. Are All Men Equal?
IV. Molasses and Tea
V. “In Order to Form a More Perfect Union”
VI. A Rifle, an AX—
VII. A Strange, Colorful Frontier—the Last
VIII. The Manufacturing North
IX. The Agricultural South
X. Land Lords Fight Money Lords
XI. Materials, Men, Machinery, Money
XII. More Materials, Men, Machinery, Money
XIII. The Have-Nots v. The Haves
XIV. From Rags to Riches

Part II
XV. From Riches to Rags
XVI. “No One Should Be Permitted to Starve”
XVII. “To Put People Back to Work”
XVIII. “Let the Seller Also Beware”
XIX. “The Epidemic of World Lawlessness Is Spreading”
XX. Jobs and Peace

Appendix: Page References to Sources of Quotations
Index
Back Cover