Fire and Grace: The Life of Rose Pastor Stokes

Arthur Zipser; Pearl Zipser

ISBN 10: 0820311332 / ISBN 13: 9780820311333

Published by Univ of Georgia Pr, 1990

Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0820311332I5N10

Synopsis:

Recounts the life of the American poet, and traces her involvement in the socialist movement

Reviews: Once as notorious as Emma Goldman or Margaret Sanger, socialist-feminist Stokes (1879-1933) is now a footnote in most histories. A Russian-Polish Jewish immigrant who spent 12 years working in Cleveland cigar factories, Rose Pastor married New York banker James Stokes in 1905. A year or so later, they joined Eugene Debs's Socialist Party. Though often dismissed as a "millionaire socialist," Rose Stokes, as limned in this vivid biography by two veterans of the socialist movement, played a prominent role in hard-fought labor struggles and in the battles for birth control and women's suffrage. She was also a playwright and poet, a founder of the U.S. Communist Party, a brief devotee of mystic Kahlil Gibran. Her conviction under the 1917 Espionage Act for anti-war speeches, followed by her stormy divorce and riches-to-rags remarriage at age 47 to 29-year-old communist intellectual Jerome Romain added dramatic twists to her unconventional life. Photos.
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Fire and Grace: The Life of Rose Pastor ...
Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket