{"product_id":"elizabeth-gurley-flynn-the-rebel-girl-democracy-and-revolution-hardback-9781978817579","title":"Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution (Hardback) 9781978817579","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eElizabeth Gurley Flynn\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMary Anne Trasciatti (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978817579, Rutgers University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 11 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.3 cm, 0.708 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“It is certainly time, actually past time, for a revival of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's saga and her reputation. Guided by the continuing thread of Flynn's civil liberties work, Trasciatti’s \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Gurley Flynn \u003c\/i\u003ewill be the book to bring her back.” - Paul Buhle (coeditor of Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson) \"\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Gurley Flynn\u003c\/i\u003e represents an important addition to the scholarship on the history of the American Left. Trasciatti weaves the personal together very effectively with the political in the presentation of significant new documentation and the breadth of Flynn's activism.” - Norman Markowitz (author of The Rise and Fall of the People's Century: Henry A. Wallace and American Liberalism, 1941-)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eElizabeth Gurley Flynn was involved in almost every major campaign of the U.S. Left in the first two thirds of the twentieth century. An outstanding orator, writer, and tactician, Flynn is one of the most important figures in the history of the American labor movement. Inspired by the Irish freedom struggle and appalled by the exploitation and grinding poverty she saw around her, she devoted her life to the advancement of civil liberties. Here, Mary Anne Trasciatti traces Flynn’s personal and political life to explore the broader social issues of a fraught era.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Born in 1890, Flynn began her activist career by joining the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) when she was just sixteen, and she ended it as the first female chair of the American Communist Party, a position she held from 1961 until her death in 1964. In the intervening years she organized workers into unions, led strikes, championed women’s rights, supported anti-imperialist movements around the globe, protested deportation, advocated for prison reform, and fought for Black liberation. Above all, she showed absolute devotion to workers and their struggles.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Slandered as an “un-American” in the anticommunist fervor of the 1940s and 1950s, Flynn was eventually ousted from the very organization she helped found, the American Civil Liberties Union, and imprisoned for two years. Though her own movement abandoned her, her commitment to the cause never wavered. This stirring biography illuminates Flynn’s inspiring life and worldview and returns her to her rightful place at the heart of labor and civil liberties history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1          Strategizing from the Soapbox: Free Speech Fights in Missoula and Spokane\u003cbr\u003e 2          The Fight for Free Speech in Paterson, New Jersey\u003cbr\u003e 3          War and Civil Liberties: An Oxymoron?\u003cbr\u003e 4          From Civil Liberties Icon to Communist Menace\u003cbr\u003e 5          From the Little Red Scare to the Big Red Scare\u003cbr\u003e 6          The Smith Act Trials of Communists in New York\u003cbr\u003e 7          The Struggle Continues: Flynn’\u003cbr\u003es Final Years\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 STRATEGIZING FROM THE SOAPBOX\u003cbr\u003e Free Speech Fights in Missoula and Spokane 7\u003cbr\u003e 2 THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH IN PATERSON,\u003cbr\u003e NEW JERSEY 41\u003cbr\u003e 3 WAR AND CIVIL LIBERTIES\u003cbr\u003e An Oxymoron? 73\u003cbr\u003e 4 FROM CIVIL LIBERTIES ICON TO COMMUNIST MENACE 119\u003cbr\u003e 5 FROM THE LITTLE RED SCARE TO\u003cbr\u003e THE BIG RED SCARE 163\u003cbr\u003e 6 THE SMITH ACT TRIALS OF COMMUNISTS\u003cbr\u003e IN NEW YORK 199\u003cbr\u003e 7 THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES\u003cbr\u003e Flynn’\u003cbr\u003es Final Years 245\u003cbr\u003e EPILOGUE 291\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 295\u003cbr\u003e Notes 299\u003cbr\u003e Index 357\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523184029976,"sku":"9781978817579","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/elizabeth-gurley-flynn-the-rebel-girl-democracy-and-revolution-hardback-9781978817579","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}