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Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box Car Bertha

Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box Car Bertha

Reitman, Ben
Pateman, Barry

Paperback

Series: Nabat

Biographies GeneralGeneral EducationGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1902593030
ISBN13: 9781902593036
Publisher: AK Press
Published: May 1 2002
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. This is second title in the new (and best-selling!) Nabat series that debuted with Jack Black's You Can't Win. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout culture that gets left out of the stultifying fairytales that pass for history books--a much more rowdy and messily interesting tradition than the guardians of propriety, steeped in those other great American traditions of puritanism and hypocrisy, let on. Hobo jungles, bughouses, whorehouses, Chicago's Main Stem, IWW meeting halls, skid rows and open freight cars--these were the haunts of the free thinking and free loving Bertha Thompson. This vivid autobiography recounts one hell of a rugged woman's hard-living depression-era saga of misadventures with pimps, hopheads, murderers, yeggs, wobblies and anarchists.

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