The Edge of Anarchy Download

ISBN: 1250128862
Title: The Edge of Anarchy Pdf The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
Author: Jack Kelly
Published Date: 2019-01-08
Page: 320

"Easy reading...A skilled craftsman...Kelly’s writing is vivid, especially in its depiction of Debs and Pullman." ―Robert D. Parmet, New York Labor History Association "Timely...Kelly tells this story with exhilaration...[The Edge of Anarchy] is not only a wonderful distillation of why the 1894 Pullman strike still matters, but it also presents an excellent overview of what life was like in 1894―full of technological promise, and yet riddled with class conflict and economic warfare." ―New York Journal of Books"Masterful." ―Railroad History"Kelly vividly portrays the personalities involved, from elected officials to labor leaders, and makes the tensions of the time quite contemporary." ―Booklist (starred review)"Kelly's vigorous narrative serves well to set down the facts of a turbulent, little-known history." ―Kirkus Reviews"A vivid account of a tumultuous era." ―Nick Salvatore, author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist"In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor, a man who spoke to wealthy business owners without fear. The story of his battles with George Pullman and other powerful corporate titans is a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." ―Tom Clavin, author of Dodge City "Jack Kelly’s remarkable new book, Ragged Edge, explores an era of our industrial and labor history with remarkable parallels to our own moment: ascendant forces of all-powerful capital, a government beholden to it, new labor movements emerging from the ashes of older ones, populist uprisings on the left and right, political polarization, and a working class divided to its detriment by issues of race and status. Kelly writes history with the storytelling prowess of a novelist or screenwriter, making forgotten subject matter newly accessible and exciting. Think Erik Larson meets Howard Zinn." ―David Rolf, President SEIU 775; Author of Fight for $15: The Right Wage for a Working America (New Press, 2016)"Pay attention, because Jack Kelly’s Ragged Edge not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." ―Brian Alexander, author of Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town JACK KELLY is a journalist, novelist, and historian, whose books include Band of Giants, which received the DAR's History Award Medal, and Heaven's Ditch. He has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, and other national periodicals, and is a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. He has appeared on The History Channel and been interviewed on National Public Radio. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

"Timely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Debs’s fledgling American Railway Union..." ―The New York Times

"During the summer of 1894, the stubborn and irascible Pullman became a central player in what the New York Times called “the greatest battle between labor and capital [ever] inaugurated in the United States.” Jack Kelly tells the fascinating tale of that terrible struggle." ―The Wall Street Journal

"Pay attention, because The Edge of Anarchy not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." ―Brian Alexander, author of Glass House

"In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor... a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." ―Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City

The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America.

The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities.

This epochal tale offers fascinating portraits of two iconic characters of the age. George Pullman, who amassed a fortune by making train travel a pleasure, thought the model town that he built for his workers would erase urban squalor. Eugene Debs, founder of the nation’s first industrial union, was determined to wrench power away from the reigning plutocrats. The clash between the two men’s conflicting ideals pushed the country to what the U.S. Attorney General called “the ragged edge of anarchy.”

Many of the themes of The Edge of Anarchy could be taken from today’s headlines―upheaval in America’s industrial heartland, wage stagnation, breakneck technological change, and festering conflict over race, immigration, and inequality. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back at the violent conflict of an earlier era offers illuminating perspectives along with a breathtaking story of a nation on the edge.

The Edge Of Anarchy Is Here Once Again; But This Time It's Global! The best reason to get Jack Kelly's new book is it shines a spotlight on our current gilded age. Law is center to both the gilded age's ruling class authority; for it hangs men[& women] whose views & actions challenge the privileged ownership class[the book tells of the four labor men hanged on November 11, 1887].The Haymarket Massacre was the aftermath of a bombing[police provocateur?] that took place at a labor demonstration in Haymarket Square, Chicago. The workers were striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to several workers killed by police the previous day. Mother Jones spoke right to the heart of the problem then and now/The working class and the employment class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people; while the few who make up the ownership class, have all the good things of life. Pray for the dead; fight for the living. In Kelly's book there's a great part where a former marble cutter urges all his labor members to oppose plutocratic enslavement and to fight tyranny and the tyrant. In Kelly's book there's a reference to the Pullman boycott as a reason for Labor day being the first Monday in September. The author's reference, in point of fact, points out that the legislation had already been out of the Senate committee months before the Pullman walkout. Left unsaid by the author; however, is that the congress was trying to divide and conquer May Day celebrations worldwide[held May 1st for centuries]. So the U.S government moved it, by the stroke of a pen, to September pretending May Day was a Russian holiday[always employing deception]!If the reader hasn't guessed it yet; the author focuses on the Pullman Strike to juxtaposition striking similarities between the later19th century gilded age, and our current early 21st century's gilded age. Although the author doesn't tell the reader specifically; the reader cannot but help himself, or herself from making the comparisons: from the fake news then, to the fake news of today; from the plutocrims then, to the plutocrims now; from the corporation is a person Supreme Court decision in 1886, to the corporation is a person Supreme Court decision in 2009; to the ruling monopolies then; to the ruling monopolies now; to the awe inspiring magical technologies then; to the magical technologies now; to the heart breaking inequalities then; to the heart breaking inequalities today; to the shift from local to national to international then, to the shift from local to national to international now; to the fight is on cry then, that at no time in the history of the nation was the issue between labor and corporations so sharply drawn an well defined - to the fight is on cry today, heard worldwide, as concentrated capital puts a stranglehold on workers everywhere. As I write this, the Yellow Vests are spreading outwards from France.The edge of anarchy is here once again; but this time it's global!Debs put it simply/The Government ownership of railroads is decidedly better for the peopled than railroad ownership of Government.In 1918 a jury convicted Debs of treason for speaking out. After sentencing Debs said/Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings. While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.When the government intervened to kill the labor movement he said/In the gleam of every bayonet and flash of every rifle the class struggle is revealed.[P.S.] Actually, just prior to WW1 the Wobblies[Industrial Workers of the World] were making the ruling class/bankers very nervous. The international banking cartel and other global puppet masters engineered a world war to put a bayonet in those workers' hands and had them go at each other. Besides solving that pesky labor problem; they also solved the growing global debt crisis[sound familiar?]. Plus, they also got to carve up the world; while they engineered a new globalized corporatism on steroids, at Bretton Woods. In this analyses, the primary economic focus is the contrast between production[real economy] & extraction[parasite economy]. In the afore mentioned economic fight - the parasites won.Interesting time in American history Very good writing and glimpse into a turbulent time in our history.

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The Fifth Risk Free Pdf

ISBN: 1324002646
Title: The Fifth Risk Pdf
Author: Michael Lewis
Published Date: 2018-10-02
Page: 256

“[A] page turner.… [Lewis'] most ambitious and important book.” - New York Times Book Review“Fascinating―and at times harrowing…. Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear.” - NPR“A hymn to the 'deep state,' which is revealed as nothing more than people who know what they're talking about.” - Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing“[A] spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government.” - Quartz“Displaying his usual meticulous research and fluid prose, [Lewis] makes the federal bureaucracy come alive by focusing on a few individuals within each agency with fascinating―and sometimes heartwarming―backstories.…[A] well-written primer on how the government serves citizens in underappreciated ways.” - Kirkus (starred review)“Illuminating.… It's relevance to readers won't end with the Trump era.” - Publishers Weekly Praise for Michael Lewis"Saturation reporting, conceptual thinking of a high order, a rich sense of humor, and talent to burn."―Tom Wolfe"Michael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects."―John Gapper, Financial Times"[Lewis] has a genius for unearthing tales of the counterintuitive."―Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review"The leading journalist of his generation."―Kyle Smith, Forbes"Lewis is the kind of writer who creates his own weather system."―John Lanchester, London Review of Books"I would read an 800-page history of the stapler if he wrote it."―John Williams, New York Times Book Review"[A] master of the character-driven narrative."―Charlie Gofen, National Book Review

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What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?

"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them.

Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it’s not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do.

Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.

If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system―those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.

one of the great living writers This is the 11th book I've read by Michael Lewis. As with the other books, his trademark style is every-present:1) He has great access to the major players and also gets down in the dirt with the people on the front lines. They provide him with a deep background and often some wonderful quotes.2) Mr. Lewis is very good at constructing sentences and paragraphs. This may seem elementary, but as a former high school English teacher and current college professor, I can assure you that books written by professionals and released by major publishing houses are sometimes poorly thought out and often difficult to slog through. Mr. Lewis is able to inform and entertain. Basically, he is a master storyteller.The Fifth Risk is what happens when we make long term decisions for short term reasons. Mr. Lewis begins the book with the Department of Energy and how President-Elect Trump did not have a plan to take over from the Obama appointees. This flew in the face of precedent. He goes on to examine the electric grid, school lunches, and notably, the national weather service. And other areas.People that love President Trump unconditionally will hate this, but then again, they probably aren't the kind of person that would read a Michael Lewis book in the first place. If you have liked (or loved) previous Lewis books, you'll be very pleased.Great Lessons Learned -- Can Trump/America RECOVER Lost Ground? In recent months, there have been three especially informative bestsellers regarding the current White House and president Trump. Each book is written by an accomplished journalist, but with somewhat different angles of focus and very different insights.Some will accuse me of being tacky and promoting the other two books. Frankly, that is not my purpose. I have no financial stake in any books being sold on Amazon or elsewhere – at least not unless or until I publish my own book. So, be that as it may, the three books currently available are:1 - The gossip columnist Michael Wolff with his salacious and alarming expose “Fire and Fury.”2 – Bob Woodward’s inside story alarming us all, “Fear.”3 – Michael Lewis’s cerebral, studied, insight that should alarm us all more than the above two, “The Fifth Risk.”Of the three, I suspect “The Fifth Risk” will enjoy the shortest time on the bestseller list. Arguably, though, it is the least partisan, sharpest insight into lessons that should be learned by observing the disarray and dysfunction inside the havoc that is the Trump White House.If President Trump read only the first 25 pages, with an open mind, I believe he actually would try to turn things around. Even as much as I despise his presidency on his worst days, I recognize he DOES have a sharp insight and DOES have the POTENTIAL to become a GREAT leader, if only…Just as another reviewer stated, I served in the Navy. Ten years. Made E-6 (first class petty officer) and departed just before Mr. Carter got trounced by Mr. Reagan.POV: Third person.BLUSH FACTOR: Profanities are numerous, especially in quotes of the president. I appreciate the honest of such reporting. When I was a correspondent in 1990, I wanted to accurately quote the incumbent republican congressman who utilized family values as one of his key pillars, but, the Oregon newspaper would not permit me the privilege. Of course, f-words in a community newspaper are frowned upon…THE WRITING: Straight-forward but not in a ‘just-the-facts’ manner. Glance at the excerpt below to see why I enjoyed reading this nonfiction account of the Trump White House, and why I am just as worried that our nation could be stepping onto the slippery slope towards, one day in the distant future, Failed State status.BONUS: As you read the early chapters you will learn of an unsung hero working to improve the functioning of government and improving the lives of us all: Max Stier. I learned a great deal of encouraging deeds by our federal employees that I’d not previously heard a thing about. It also provides insight into mistakes or oversights of the Obama Administration.Excerpt ‘…On his visits to the White House soon after the election, Jared Kushner expressed surprise that so much of its staff seemed to be leaving. “It was like he thought it was a corporate acquisition or something,” says an Obama White House staffer. “He thought everyone just stayed.”Even in normal times the people who take over the United States government can be surprisingly ignorant about it. As a longtime career civil servant in the Department of Energy who has watched four different administrations show up to try to run the place put it, “You always have the issue of maybe they don’t understand what the department does.” To address that problem, a year before he left office, Barack Obama had instructed a lot of knowledgeable people across his administration, including fifty or so inside the DOE, to gather the knowledge that his successor would need in order to understand the government he or she was taking charge of. The Bush administration had done the same for Obama, and Obama had been grateful for their efforts. He told his staff that their goal should be to ensure an even smoother transfer of power than the Bush people had achieved.That had proved to be a huge undertaking. Thousands of people inside the federal government had spent the better part of a year drawing a vivid picture of it for the benefit of the new administration. The United States government might be the most complicated organization on the face of the earth. Its two million federal employees take orders from four thousand political appointees. Dysfunction is baked into the structure of the thing: the subordinates know that their bosses will be replaced every four or eight years, and that the direction of their enterprises might change overnight—with an election or a war or some other political event. Still, many of the problems our government grapples with aren’t particularly ideological, and the Obama people tried to keep their political ideology out of the briefings. “You don’t have to agree with our politics,” as the former senior White House official put it. “You just have to understand how we got here. Zika, for instance. You might disagree with how we approached it. You don’t have to agree. You just have to understand why we approached it that way.”How to stop a virus, how to take a census, how to determine if some foreign country is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or if North Korean missiles can reach Kansas City: these are enduring technical problems. The people appointed by a newly elected president to solve these problems have roughly seventy-five days to learn from their predecessors. After the inauguration, a lot of deeply knowledgeable people will scatter to the four winds and be forbidden, by federal law, from initiating any contact with their replacements. The period between the election and the inauguration has the feel of an AP chemistry class to which half the students have turned up late and are forced to scramble to grab the notes taken by the other half, before the final.Two weeks after the election, the Obama people inside the DOE read in the newspapers that Trump had created a small “Landing Team.” It was led by, and mostly consisted of, a man named Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, which, upon inspection, proved to be a Washington, DC, propaganda machine funded with millions of dollars from ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. Pyle himself had served as a Koch Industries lobbyist and ran a business on the side writing editorials attacking the DOE’s attempts to reduce the dependence of the American economy on carbon. Pyle said that his role on the Landing Team was “voluntary” and added that he could not disclose who appointed him, due to a confidentiality agreement. The people running the DOE were by then seriously alarmed. “We first learned of Pyle’s appointment on the Monday of Thanksgiving week,” recalls Kevin Knobloch, then DOE chief of staff. “We sent word to him that the secretary and his deputy would…’Lewis, Michael. The Fifth Risk (pp. 36-39). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.BOTTOM LINEI got about halfway through the book when I realized its value exceeded “Fire and Fury” and, even, “Fear.” Thus, I stopped reading long enough to order the Audible edition. For me, “The Fifth Risk” may not have the headline-grabbing gossip of “Fire and Fury.” It may not have the inside story of “Fear.” Lewis’s “The Fifth Risk” is the sharpest, most USEFUL insight into how the Trump Administration can be fixed and into the lessons learned we citizens should DEMAND be implemented to repairing our republic. Remember, as shown in this book, not all blame can be attributed to Trump, the republicans, the democrats or even the media. Each of us shares some responsibility.Five stars out of five.I am striving to produce reviews that help you find books that you want, or avoid books that you wish to avoid. With your help, my improvement will help you and me improve book reviews on Amazon. Together, you and I can build a great customer review process that helps everybody. Will you join me? It is people such as you who have helped me improve over the years. I'm still learning, and I have a great deal yet to learn. With your help, I'll improve every day.One request: Be respectful and courteous in your comments and emails to me. I will do likewise with you.Thank you so much for indicating if this review helped you, or for your comment.

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