TOMORROW IS BEAUTIFUL

by Lucy Robins Lang ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 15, 1948

Excellent autobiography, as well as important historically for those interested in the labor movement. The fascinating story of a remarkable career, four decades spent working for social betterment, with people rather than causes the motivating force. She writes of a childhood in Russia, and after the age of 10, in the United States; of a first job in a cigar factory, and the beginnings of her life work as she became an anarchist; a trial marriage to Bob Robins, and the trial separation which shocked conservative sensibilities. She worked with Emma Goldman in her fight for freedom of speech; she aided strikers, fought against framed trials, campaigned for freedom of political prisoners after World War I. In her work for political prisoners she came to admire Gompers, identified herself with the A.F. of L., and later went abroad with her husband, Harry Lang, to make a study of European labor for William Green. She was always on the side of the oppressed, and figured in the cases of the McNamara brothers, Tom Mooney, Eugene Debs, Sacco and Vanzetti, and others. Interesting and challenging reading.

Pub Date: Nov. 15, 1948

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1948

Categories: NONFICTION