Bodacious Ballot Box Burglary

This fascinating memoir divulges the inside story of bizarre events that propelled the author's husband to prison in a bitter union power struggle. It discloses the wheels within wheels that spun through the weird Goodyear Aircraft ballot box burglary in 1943. Unique individuals populate a dynamic era: - Labor titans Mother Jones and Joe Hill, John L. Lewis, Harry Bridges, Walter Reuther. - J. Edgar Hoover's effect on paupers and presidents. - The Phi Beta Kappa All-American football player, magnificent singer/ actor barred from attending performances in theaters where he had starred. Bodacious depicts problems of anti-Semitism, racism; workers' struggles; military-industrial depredations and budget devastation; endless warfare. Zest, humor, humanitarian concerns enliven this personal, controversial book. It includes surgical trauma of the author's childhood, life on the farm, university education, Depression, World War II, labor today, and helping each other help ourselves.