Elsie Fox - Portrait of an Activist (Paperback)

On Mother's Day of 2006, ninety-eight-year-old Elsie Fox stepped up to a microphone at a park in Bozeman, Montana, and called for people to wake up, remember, act, and make a difference. Spanning a century, this biography of feisty Elsie Fox tells the story of a woman who made activism her life. Born on a remote Eastern Montana ranch, Elsie was nurtured by a strong desire to be self-reliant at a time when women were expected to be good housewives. She came of age in the rip-roaring decade of the twenties and witnessed the Depression in Seattle that led her to discover Marxism and a like-minded husband. The road led to San Francisco, the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union where she worked for twenty-eight years. Elsie spent WWII fighting for her husband's release from a Prisoner of War camp in the United States where he was being held as an illegal German alien. With photos included, Elsie Fox paints a vivid picture of a woman who fights for what she believes. She asks, "If we don't take action when there are problems in the world, then what are we?"

General

Imprint:	Iuniverse, Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	December 2008
Authors:	Karen Stevenson
As told to:	Elise Fox • Elsie Fox
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-0-595-51856-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-595-51856-7
Barcode:	9780595518562

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