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A novel based on a true tale of heroism and invention in the
tunnels beneath Lake Erie in 1916 Â This original graphic
novel imagines the lives of blue-collar workers involved in the
real-life Lake Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. Author
Scott MacGregor and illustrator Gary Dumm tell the intersecting
stories of a brilliant African American inventor, Ben Beltran
(based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), desperate immigrants
tunneling beneath Lake Erie, and corrupt overseers who risk
countless lives for profit. As historical fiction, Fire on the
Water sheds light not only on one of America’s earliest man-made
ecological disasters but also on racism and the economic disparity
between classes in the Midwest at the turn of the century.
By the late 1960s, America felt like it was teetering on the edge
of a vast transformation. Helping push it over that edge was a
brigade of young radicals, the Students for a Democratic Society,
who were fighting the establishment for peace abroad and equality
at home. In "Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History,"
the famed graphic novelist Harvey Pekar, the gifted artist Gary
Dumm, the renowned historian Paul Buhle, and a marvelous cast of
they-were-there contributors illustrate their struggle, bringing to
life the tumultuous decade that first defined and then was defined
by the men and women who gathered under the SDS banner.
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Students for a Democratic Society "captures the idealism and
activism that drove a generation of young Americans to believe that
even one person's actions can help transform the world.
In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what
became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern
American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings-and
pizzas-to the thousands occupying the Capitol building in Madison,
and 150,000 demonstrators converged on the city. In a year that has
seen a revival of protest in America, here is a riveting account of
the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate
restructuring of the Great Recession. It Started in Wisconsin
includes eyewitness reports by striking teachers, students, and
others (such as Wisconsin-born musician Tom Morello), as well as
essays explaining Wisconsin's progressive legacy by acclaimed
historians. The book lays bare the national corporate campaign that
crafted Wisconsin's anti-union legislation and similar laws across
the country, and it conveys the infectious esprit de corps that
pervaded the protests with original pictures and comics.
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