MARC Record from Library of Congress

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020 $a9780786472161 (softcover : alkaline paper)
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050 00 $aE748.L84$bG65 2013
082 00 $a328.73/092$aB$223
100 1 $aGoldberg, Gordon J.,$d1933-
245 10 $aMeyer London :$ba biography of the socialist New York congressman, 1871-1926 /$cGordon J. Goldberg.
264 1 $aJefferson, North Carolina :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c[2013]
300 $avi, 321 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"Meyer London (1871-1926), a Russian Jewish immigrant, settled in New York's Lower East Side in 1891. He became a lawyer, labor activist, founding member of the Socialist Party of America, and a three term Congressman. His death in 1926 caused shock waves among his fellow Lower East Siders for whom London had become a folk hero"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) and index.
505 0 $aThe Early Years : 1871-1901 -- London and the Labor Movement -- Prelude to Victory : The Elections of 1910 and 1912 -- Victory in 1914 -- Preparing for Congress : Issues of War and Peace -- The Sixty-Fourth Congress : The Specter of War -- The Sixty-Fourth Congress : In Pursuit of Constructive Reform -- The Sixty-Fifth Congress : War Declared -- The Sixty-Fifth Congress : Champion of Civil Liberties -- The Elections of 1918 and 1920 -- The Sixty-Seventh Congress : Opposition to Postwar Conservatism -- Meyer London : The Final Years -- Epilogue: Failure of a Dream.
600 10 $aLondon, Meyer,$d1871-1926.
650 0 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aJewish legislators$zUnited States$vBiography.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bCongress.$bHouse$vBiography.
650 0 $aJews, Russian$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aSocialists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aSocialism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aLower East Side (New York, N.Y.)$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xPolitics and government$y1898-1951.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1901-1953.