Michael Dunn Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michael Dunn

Today in Writing History 5/7/1861: #Indian #poet, playwright Rabindranath Tagore was born. Bard of Bengal was the 1st non-European to win the #NobelPrize in Literature. Anti-imperialist. Supported Indian nationalism. 1916, expatriates tried to assassinate him in San Francisco https://t.co/yHbRgLzVFK

Michael Dunn

Today in Labor History 11/29/1832: Louisa May Alcott, author, nurse, #feminist & #abolitionist, was born. Most famous for “Little Women,” also wrote “Work,” an autobiographical #novel exposing exploitation of women workers. Poverty forced her to work at a young age. https://t.co/vCwr3rQJ3r

Michael Dunn

Today in Labor History January 4, 1853: Solomon Northup, author of the memoir “Twelve Years a Slave,” regained his freedom on this date, after having been kidnapped and sold into #slavery in the American South. https://t.co/MA4J5gsmcZ

Michael Dunn

Today in Labor History 6/9/1843: Bertha von Suttner was born. Austrian #author, #Peace activist & #NobelPrize laureate. Wrote “Lay Down Your Arms,” anti-war & #feminist #Novel. Tolstoy compared her favorably with Harriet Beecher Stowe. https://t.co/71WP8KMEIM

Michael Dunn

Today in Writing History 5/10/1999: Shel Silverstein, American #poet, cartoonist, singer-songwriter, #musician & playwright died. “The Giving Tree,” "A Boy Named Sue," “25 Minutes to Go.” https://t.co/RLvBpNVEiY

Michael Dunn

Today in Labor History 4/2/1840: Émile Zola, novelist, was born. Wrote Germinal, about a violently repressed miners’ #strike. #Anarchist newspapers named Germinal popped up in London, Mexico & Brazil in the 1910s. https://t.co/iwWaMOAeRT

Michael Dunn

Today in Labor History 9/20/1878: Upton Sinclair was born. Wrote dozens of books, incl Oil! King Coal & The Jungle, famous for its portrayal of conditions in Chicago meat packing houses. Also indictment of worker exploitation, political & #Union corruption & abuse of #Immigrants https://t.co/DkUfcVuaPs

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Today in Labor History 1/5/1895: Authorities sentenced French #Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus to life imprisonment for #treason in a show trial seeped in #antisemitism. Many spoke out against the Dreyfus affair, incl Emile Zola, Anatole France, Durkheim, Monet & Proust https://t.co/KERKc13TGS

Michael Dunn

Today in Labor History March 24, 1834: William Morris, British author, textile designer and revolutionary #socialist was born on this date. He wrote the utopian novel “News From Nowhere” and founded the Socialist League in 1874. He was influenced by both #Marxism and #anarchism. https://t.co/n8Ylchn58p

Michael Dunn

Today in Labor History 12/2/1867: Charles Dickens gave his 1st public reading in US. In “American Notes,” he condemned #slavery & correlated emancipation of British poor with #abolition. Also argued for #copyright laws & against pirating of his work. Press ridiculed him. https://t.co/IKfRJY0v5d