Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America

You will never look at your working conditions the same again. Great read. Compelling, full of information. The whole thing comes alive. You will probably be angry when you put this book down, either because you agree with the author's reading of history, or because you don't. People died for an eig......more

This was a great read, full of valuable information about an under-appreciated time in American history. I have to warn you though (spoiler alert), this would not be considered by most to be a happy story. This is not something taught in history class because it makes you question everything you kno......more

Moving to Chicago I wanted to get a lil grounding in the history and was eager to learn about this thing given all the things named after it, publisher, book store in Minneapolis etc, yet I hear like ZERO reference to it, even when i read lefty things that love to romanticize past defeats. And for a......more

Devastating, unnerving, deeply tragic…......more

Call me a sucker for books about Chicago, but I loved this book. It really explored every angle of what happened on that infamous day in history. Very well researched and reads very well and very quick.......more