The Edge of Anarchy Pdf

ISBN: B07CWRL21R
Title: The Edge of Anarchy Pdf The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America

"Timely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Debs’s fledgling American Railway Union..." —The New York Times

"During the summer of 1894, the stubborn and irascible Pullman became a central player in what the New York Times called “the greatest battle between labor and capital [ever] inaugurated in the United States.” Jack Kelly tells the fascinating tale of that terrible struggle." —The Wall Street Journal

"Pay attention, because The Edge of Anarchy not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House

"In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor... a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." —Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City

The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America.

The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of 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 fascinating portraits of two iconic characters of the age. George Pullman, who amassed a fortune by making train travel a pleasure, thought the model town that he built for his workers would erase urban squalor. Eugene Debs, founder of the nation’s first industrial union, was determined to wrench power away from the reigning plutocrats. The clash between the two men’s conflicting ideals pushed the country to what the U.S. Attorney General called “the ragged edge of anarchy.”

Many of the themes of The Edge of Anarchy could be taken from today’s headlines—upheaval in America’s industrial heartland, wage stagnation, breakneck technological change, and festering conflict over race, immigration, and inequality. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back at the violent conflict of an earlier era offers illuminating perspectives along with a breathtaking story of a nation on the edge.

Wonderful nonfiction for fans of Candice Millard or Erik Larson I’m not a big reader of nonfiction, but I love history and enjoy learning about an episode in history of which I was previously unaware. So, I was drawn to The Edge of Anarchy, which details the largest uprising of US workers. The 1890s were the height of the Gilded Age and like today, one of those periods when there was a large gulf between the haves and the have nots. In fact, the similarities between the two time periods is one of the things that drew me to the book. In 1893, the US economy suffered a crash and a following recession. Railroad manual job wages were cut to starvation levels.The story concentrates on Eugene Debs, who had the idea of creating an industrial union for all members involved in the railroads, not individual unions for each specific job. On the opposite side was George Pullman. Pullman pulled himself up by his bootstraps, to use an old phrase. A creative business genius, he not only had new ideas for railroad cars, but also designed a town for his employees. But he was all about making money and didn’t care how many of his workers starved so long as is businesses were profitable. “Both Debs and Pullman were fighting for deeply held principles: community versus self-interest, cooperation versus competition, equality versus liberty. On this anniversary of independence, each felt that he was a patriot upholding the best of the American tradition.”The depression also led to the creation of civilian armies, bands of the unemployed marching on DC. Their leaders actually had some ideas that FDR would later employ to help during the Great Depression. But Grover Cleveland was no FDR.The book is well written and well researched. It moves at a brisk pace and kept my interest. I loved how Kelly lined all the dominoes up so we could watch them fall. The best historical nonfiction books make you feel part of the time and place. Kelly does just that.I highly recommend this book to lovers of history. Fans of Candice Millard or Erik Larson will enjoy this.My thanks to netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advance copy of this book.

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