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Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel. First Published as The Preacher and the Slave
by STEGNER, Wallace
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1969. Reissue; first edition under this title. Octavo (21.5cm). Cloth-backed, cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 381pp. Tight, fine copy in original dustwrapper, corner-clipped on front flap but with $6.95 price still present; spine sunned but legible, and a few brief nicks and marginal tears, Very Good.
Reissue, under a new title, of Stegner's 1950 biographical novel The Preacher and the Slave, based on the life of legendary I.W.W. organizer and songwriter Joe Hill. The jacket copy makes clear the publisher's intent to market the novel to a new generation of radicalized baby-boomers, no doubt spurring the change in title and the timing of the reissue.
Reissue, under a new title, of Stegner's 1950 biographical novel The Preacher and the Slave, based on the life of legendary I.W.W. organizer and songwriter Joe Hill. The jacket copy makes clear the publisher's intent to market the novel to a new generation of radicalized baby-boomers, no doubt spurring the change in title and the timing of the reissue.
Synopsis
Blending fact with fiction, Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill—the Wobbly bard who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was executed for the alleged murder of a Salt Lake City businessman. Organizer, agitator, "Labor's Songster"—a rebel from the skin inwards, with an absolute faith in the One Big Union—Joe Hill fought tirelessly in the frequently violent battles between organized labor and industry. But though songs and stories still vaunt him, and his legend continues to inspire those who feel the injustices he fought against, Joe Hill may not have been a saintly crusader and may have been motivated by impulses darker than the search for justice. Joe Hill is a full-bodied portrait of both the man and the myth: from his entrance into the short-lived Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. His famous last words: "Don't waste time mourning. Organize." "A genuinely powerful novel of labor as it once was in the U.S." — San Francisco Chronicle .
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24547
- Title
- Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel. First Published as The Preacher and the Slave
- Author
- STEGNER, Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; IWW; Social Fiction;
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