{"product_id":"8436542010351","title":"Plenty, Plenty Soul","description":"Radicalized after a 15,000 mile journey through America during the Great Depression, Mel Fiske recounts his unusual stints as labor organizer and worker in steel mills, railroad roundhouses, freight-car assemblies, and tire factories--jobs that have since disappeared. He worked for newspapers in various states, once serving as correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eDaily Worker\u003c\/i\u003e in Washington, D.C., where he covered the rise of the Truman-McCarthy-Hoover Red Hunt that roiled our country through the Fifties.  \u003cp\u003eFiske gives the reader his grunt's eye-view of life as a Marine in the Pacific—particularly the bloody but little-remembered battle for Peleliu. He tells of his family life in the Bronx and Brooklyn, when a subway ride or an ice cream cone cost a nickel, and when his father prospered as a printer during the Depression by schmearing, or giving bribes.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWith blunt honesty and wryness, he recalls his first love and marriage, which ended with a Dear John letter as World War II atomized to its conclusion. This book is not simply a memoir, but a look at twentieth-century America from the point of view of a man who, galvanized by the injustices he both witnessed and experienced, struck out in his own radical way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pumpkinheads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47089411031280,"sku":"8436542010351","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/8436542010351_p0.jpg?v=1763611851","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/8436542010351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}