2564 Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, by Peter Carlson (read 3 Jan 1994) This is a 1983 book on Big Bill Haywood (born in Salt Lake City Feb 4, 1869, died in Moscow, Russia, May 18, 1928). I enjoyed the book, though it is not particularly well-written. Haywood's morals were despicable, but he did some interesting things. He was a leading light in the I.W.W.'s. His acquittal of the murder of ex-Governor Of Idaho Frank Steunenberg (Darrow doing the closing argument) is an enthralling story, well told in this book. His leadership in the Lawrence, Mass., textile strike and the Paterson, N. J., strike are famous. This book is too sympathetic to him--and that he could praise a tyranny like Communism in his late years is deplorable. But the illegal things that were done in those days make one realize how far we have come. Certainly much that was done in violation of people's rights in the years 1900-1925 makes me glad that we are beyond such tactics. ( )