From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely)narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrialage to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first realfactories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentiethcentury and their waning influence today, the con?test betweenlabor and capital for their share of American bounty has shaped ournational experience. Philip Dray’s ambition is to show us the vitalaccomplishments of organized labor in that time and illuminate itscentral role in our social, political, economic, and culturalevolution. There Is Power in a Union is an epic, character-drivennarrative that locates this struggle for security and dignity inall its various settings: on picket lines and in union halls,jails, assembly lines, corporate boardrooms, the courts, the hallsof Congress, and the White House. The author demonstrates,viscerally and dramatically, the urgency of the fight for fairnessand economic democracy—a strugg

Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in hislatest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into thevery bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for thisdevelopment is that the term “animal rights” is so often used veryloosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But although animalrights groups do sometimes focus their activism on promoting animalwelfare, the larger movement they represent is actually advancing aradical belief system. For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to aquasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moralequivalency between the value of animal lives and the value ofhuman lives. Animal rights ideologues embrace their beliefs with afervor that is remarkably intense and sustained, to the point thatmany dedicate their entire lives to “speaking for those who cannotspeak for themselves.” Some believe their cause to be so righteousthat it entitles them to cross the line from legitimate advocacy tovandalism and ha