Louis Adamic (1899–1951)
Author of Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America
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Associated Works
The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Contributor — 7 copies
1935 Essay Annual — Contributor — 4 copies
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- Canonical name
- Adamic, Louis
- Legal name
- Adamic, Louis Alojzi
- Other names
- Adamič, Alojz
- Birthdate
- 1899-03-23
- Date of death
- 1951-09-04
- Burial location
- Bloomsbury Cemetery, Bloomsbury, New Jersey, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Austro-Hungarian Empire (birth)
USA [naturalized 2018] - Birthplace
- Praproče pri Grosupljem, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Place of death
- Milford, New Jersey, USA
- Cause of death
- gunshot
- Places of residence
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
San Pedro, California, USA
Milford, New Jersey, USA - Occupations
- journalist
- Relationships
- Stout, Rex (friend)
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Statistics
- Works
- 22
- Also by
- 4
- Members
- 355
- Popularity
- #67,468
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 23
- Languages
- 4
Part One: Mild beginnings; Impudent conduct; The Molly Maguires; The great riots of 1877
Part two: “Dynamite…that’s the stuff!”; Propaganda by the deed; The stage is set; The Haymarket bomb; The movement becomes a racket; Criminals join the class war
Part three: War begins an earnest; The Homestead strike; Coxey’s army; The Debs rebellion; Violence in the west; The reddening dawn of the 20th century, To hell with the constitution; The murder trial in Idaho; The wobblies
Part four: The McNamara affair; Class war 1905-1910; The AF of L dynamiters; The Los Angeles dynamite plot; The explosion – and after; Frame up!; The trial; Confessions; The AF of L loses its militancy
Part five: Massacres, frame ups and judicial murders; Slaughter east and west, The Mooney-Billings case, The great steel strike, The Centralia outrage, Sacco and Vanzetti
Part six: Rackets and sabotage; The beginning of racketeering; Racketeering as a phase of class conflict; Sabotage and striking on the job… (more)