About the Author

Elliott J. Gorn, a professor of history at Purdue University, is the co-author of A Brief History of American Sports and author of The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America.

Reviews

"Imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography." --Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday Globe "Elliott Gorn's outstanding and dramatic new biography of Mother Jones reacquaints us with this extraordinary figure . . ." --Benjamin L. Alpers, Chicago Tribune "[A] lively, well-honed biography . . . Admirable." --David S. Reynolds, The New York Times Book Review