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Canada and the United States

Robert Bussel. From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. Pp. xxi, 257. Cloth $57.50, paper $19.95.

These are halcyon days for biography. As popular literature in this postmodern world, biography satisfies our apparently irrepressible urge for coherent narrative, and as history, biography has become increasingly valued for its explanatory power. Ever since the publication of Melvin Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine's magisterial study of John L. Lewis (1977) and Nick Salvatore's razor-sharp analysis of Eugene V. Debs (1982), labor historians in particular have been enamored by biography as a prism through which to assess broad questions. Far more modest than these two volumes in its scope, Robert Bussel's book is nevertheless a well-researched, elegantly written, and erudite addition to the growing list of American labor biographies, one that will please specialists and general readers alike. . . .

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