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Hobohemia - Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s/30s Chicago (Hardcover)
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Hobohemia - Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s/30s Chicago (Hardcover)
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From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the
undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side
neighborhood know as Towertown was the vital center of an
extraordinary cultural/political ferment. It was home to Bughouse
Square (the nation's most renowned outdoor free-speech center), Ben
Reitman's Hobo College, and the fabulous Dil Pickle club, a highly
unorthodox institution of higher learning that doubled as the
craziest nightclub in the world. It was something like New York's
Greenwich Village, but - thanks to the prominence of the
Chicago-based IWW - much more working class, and more openly
revolutionary. Frank O Becks Hobohemia contains a long time
Towertowner's vivid reminiscences of this colorful, dynamic,
creative and radical community that flourished for a generation
despite constant onslaughts from the Red Squad, the Vice Squad,
bourgeois journalists and fundamentalist bigots. Originally
published in 1956, this handsome new edition contains a superb
introduction from Franklin Rosemont, providing a historical
overview of Chicago's working class counter-culture, and a
biographical sketch of Beck. It also relates the book to earlier
and later literature on the subject and fills in some gaps in the
narrative.
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