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Book Review
| Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment. By Susan Starbuck. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xviii + 358 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, index. $29.95.)
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Susan Starbuck's annotated oral history of Seattle's feisty Hazel "Leo" Wolf is a pleasant read for anyone who appreciates the vibrant years of social activism often found in the untold stories of our nation's elder citizens. Little do most of our youth know the risks that many in the geriatric crowd took to make life better for them. |
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Wolf was a firebrand early in her youth. Her adventures over the course of her long life provide ample anecdotes that are really just tips of the icebergs of the deeper meanings of Wolf's adventures, and are more often than not only implied here. A great storyteller, Wolf's profound insights about social conflict and clashing interests come by way of her folksy conversational style, not by pounding you over the head with diatribe or didactics. |
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