Waiting for the News (Great Lakes Books)

by Leo Litwak

Book Overview

Set in Detroit in the late thirties and early forties, Waiting for the News tells of a man driven by an almost religious fanaticism about trade unionism. Jake Gottlieb, a laundry driver with grand designs, spins seditious dreams of a strike against all laundry companies, beginning with his own. The world he take son is tough and nasty. Hired fists are always ready to smash the heads of stubborn troublemakers, fists that are no less brutal because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814322751
• ISBN13: 9780814322758
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"