John L. Lewis

"A great event for all students of recent American history." --David Brody, Reviews in American History "This ambitious and remarkable volume puts Lewis center stage again. More than a biography of the most significant trade union leader since Gompers, this exhaustively well-researched work is, in fat, a signal contribution to a munch needed reinterpretation of American labor politics in the crucial second quarter of the [twentieth] century. . . . This well-illustrated, engagingly-written volume deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history of American labor in the twentieth century." --Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor History