More powerful than dynamite : radicals, plutocrats, progressives, and New York's year of anarchy
Jones, Thai, 1977-2012
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For John Purroy Mitchel, New York's new 'boy mayor,' trouble started in January 1914, when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchist throngs paraded past industrialists' mansions, and thousands filled Union Square demanding 'Bread or Revolution.' Then, on July 4, a detonation destroyed a Harlem tenement.
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Imprint:
New York : Walker ; London : Bloomsbury [distributor], 2012.
Collation:
416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780802779335 (hbk)
Dewey class:
974.71041974.7104
Language:
English
Subject:
Anarchism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th centuryPlutocracy -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th centuryProgressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th centuryLabor movement -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th centuryNew York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1898-1951
BRN:
68705