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For Chicago physician Mitch Wilner, July 4, 1937, began as a typical holiday-a leisurely afternoon at the beach with his wife and young children. But when a peaceful protest erupts in violence, and Mitch sees unarmed steel mill strikers attacked by the local police, he finds himself thrust into the heart of America's labor struggles.
In the days and months that follow, Mitch witnesses the aggressive strike-breaking tactics used by the steel mill...
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The Old Bunch chronicles the lives of nineteen Jewish men and women on Chicago's west, a spawling-yet-intimate portrait of American life during the Great Depression, by an author the LA Times hailed as "the most significant American Jewish writer of his time." Among the various lives depicted so vividly are those of Joe Feeman, a wayward artist who loses the love of his life to a doctor whose future path is as clear as Joe's is uncertain. Sam Eisen...
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