Mother Jones the Miners' Angel

Reviews / Votes

[Dale Fetherling's] "tribute to the in-domitable old Irish biddy, who never weighed more than 100 pounds, is thor-oughly documented, eloquent and mov-ing."-Jack Conroy, ChicagoSun-Times

"A human portrait in historical perspec-tive emerges from these pages, as fine a story as anyone who lived an active life for a century could claim, and it is high-ly recommended to all readers of bi-ography, labor history, and Illinois history."

-John H. Keister, Pennsylvania History.

"This book tells all that can be found out about the old woman whom hundreds of thousands of miners called mother and a district attorney called 'the most dan-gerous woman in America.'"-Fred Thompson, Industrial Worker



"Dale Fetherling... has written a schol-arly portrait which is also a labor of love,... In this first attempt ever to 'distill her legacy,' he concludes that 'she may have been the most spectacular woman the country has produced, and she was certainly the most loved and dramatic female in the nation's labor movement.'" -History