{"product_id":"elizabeth-gurley-flynn-the-rebel-girl-democracy-and-revolution-9781978817579","title":"Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution","description":"Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was involved in almost every major campaign of the U.S. Left in the first two thirds of the twentieth century. An outstanding orator, writer, and tactician, Flynn is one of the most important figures in the history of the American labor movement. Inspired by the Irish freedom struggle and appalled by the exploitation and grinding poverty she saw around her, she devoted her life to the advancement of civil liberties. Here, Mary Anne Trasciatti traces Flynn's personal and political life to explore the broader social issues of a fraught era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born in 1890, Flynn began her activist career by joining the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) when she was just sixteen, and she ended it as the first female chair of the American Communist Party, a position she held from 1961 until her death in 1964. In the intervening years she organized workers into unions, led strikes, championed women's rights, supported anti-imperialist movements around the globe, protested deportation, advocated for prison reform, and fought for Black liberation. Above all, she showed absolute devotion to workers and their struggles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Slandered as an \"un-American\" in the anticommunist fervor of the 1940s and 1950s, Flynn was eventually ousted from the very organization she helped found, the American Civil Liberties Union, and imprisoned for two years. Though her own movement abandoned her, her commitment to the cause never wavered. This stirring biography illuminates Flynn's inspiring life and worldview and returns her to her rightful place at the heart of labor and civil liberties history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Anne Trasciatti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978817579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARY ANNE TRASCIATTI is a professor of rhetoric and the director of labor studies at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She coedited the collections \u003ci\u003eWhere Are the Workers?: Labor's Stories at Museums and Historic Sites\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTalking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Mary Anne Trasciatti \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47792853909661,"sku":"9781978817579","price":55.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_7d781983-676e-4cd2-adf1-cffda0a38b93.jpg?v=1774983492","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/elizabeth-gurley-flynn-the-rebel-girl-democracy-and-revolution-9781978817579","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}