Red Tom" Hickey by Peter Buckingham
This is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, joined the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party. This book is an important contribution to Texas and American history, capturing a moment in time that was the second sustained crisis in American history.-
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“'Red Tom’ Hickey gives us a rollicking and fully documented ride, a blow-by-blow account of American and Texan socialism in its heyday, written in a spirited fashion that Hickey and his comrades would have appreciatedBuckingham vividly describes the tragic destruction of Hickey’s cause and his beloved newspaper, The Rebel, by the trumped-up actions of the Wilson administration.”—George Green, founder, Labor History Archives
“Sympathetic yet nuanced and critical of the role of race in Hickey's hybrid Texas Plan to organize tenant farmers along syndicalist lines with an overlay of encampment-style Christian Socialism, Buckingham weaves a compelling narrative that will be of great interest to historians of American labor and agrarian radicalism.”—Gregg Andrews, author of City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer
"With meticulous attention to detail, Peter Buckingham delves deeply into Hickey’s conflicted personal life, showing its effect on his equally conflicted career as activist and journalist, while simultaneously demonstrating socialism’s important role in articulating the rights of labor in an age of industrial capitalism."—Victoria Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
“Sympathetic yet nuanced and critical of the role of race in Hickey's hybrid Texas Plan to organize tenant farmers along syndicalist lines with an overlay of encampment-style Christian Socialism, Buckingham weaves a compelling narrative that will be of great interest to historians of American labor and agrarian radicalism.”—Gregg Andrews, author of City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer
"With meticulous attention to detail, Peter Buckingham delves deeply into Hickey’s conflicted personal life, showing its effect on his equally conflicted career as activist and journalist, while simultaneously demonstrating socialism’s important role in articulating the rights of labor in an age of industrial capitalism."—Victoria Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Peter H. Buckingham is professor of history at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and the author of Rebel against Injustice: The Life of Frank P. O'Hare and America Sees Red: Anti-Communism in America, 1870s to 1980s. He resides in McMinnville.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781623497552 |
| ISBN 10 | 1623497558 |
| Title | Red Tom" Hickey |
| Author | Peter Buckingham |
| Series | Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series In The West And Southwest |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Texas A & M University Press |
| Year published | 2020-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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