looking for bio. info. on Haywood and EG Flynn

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does anyone have any good biographical/political references on the lives and ideas of Big Bill Haywood or Elizabeth Gurley Flynn?

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ask jim

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E G Flynn - "Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left" by Helen C Camp, 1995 Washington State University Press. Don't have/know of anything off-hand on Big Bill.

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hmm, there's obviously her autobiography too, The Rebel Girl

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Clare wrote:
hmm, there's obviously her autobiography too, The Rebel Girl

Well yeah, but that was much too obvious wink

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thanks folks. boul - hadn't heard of that book so i'll check it out, cheers

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EGF is also covered extensively in All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca, by Dorothy Gallagher.

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For Haywwod there is a book called "Roughneck"

his own autobiography requires hipwaders from what I'm told

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The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood, International Publishers, NY, 1983.

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thanks for the extra tips smile

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Happy New Year ftony --- from the Mile Waste Agitator

Rosalyne.Baxandall, "Words of Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn"

Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/rebelgirl.html

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, (1963). The Alderson Story: My Life As a Political Prisoner. International Publishers.

MIA: Subject Archive: Women and Marxism: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/index.html

The Haywood Autobio. is alleged to have been "ghost written".

Bill Haywood's archive at Anarchist Archives
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/bright/haywood/BBHworks.html
Max Eastman "Bill Haywood, Communist"
http://www.marxists.org/archive/eastman/1921/bill-haywood.htm
David Karsner "William D. Haywood,Communist Ambassador to Russia"
http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1921/0501-karsner-billhaywood.pdf
Lewis Gannett "Bill Haywood in Moscow"
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/history/usa/unions/iww/1921/0900-gannett-haywoodmoscow.pdf

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wow, syndicalist, you old devil you. cheers cool