Some Dissenting Voices (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Weinberg, Lila Shaffer Weinberg
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1833–1938
- Setting: California, Germany, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Spain, and Tennessee
- Principal Characters: Lincoln Steffens, Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, John Peter Altgeld, Jane Addams, Robert Green Ingersoll
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Journalism or journalists, Socialism, Social issues, Social work, Lawyers, Labor unions, Biography, Pacifism, Dissent or dissenters
- Locales: California, New York, Ohio, Spain, Tennessee, Germany, New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana
Form and Content
Arthur Weinberg and Lila Shaffer Weinberg’s Some Dissenting Voices: The Story of Six American Dissenters is a mixture of history and biography in six chapters, with each chapter featuring a different dissenter: muckraker and journalist, labor organizer and socialist, lawyer and humanist, statesman and Democrat, social worker and world citizen, agnostic and Republican. Each chapter includes a photograph of the dissenter. The authors present American history from 1833 to 1938, showing how each of these individuals influenced history and were influenced...
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