Elsie Fox: Portrait of an Activist

by Karen Stevenson

Elise Fox (Secondary Author) and Elsie Fox (Secondary Author)

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Spanning a century, this biography of feisty Elsie Fox tells the story of a woman who made activism her life. Born on a remote Eastern Montana ranch, Elsie was nurtured by a strong desire to be self-reliant at a time when women were expected to be good housewives. She came of age in the rip-roaring decade of the twenties and witnessed the Depression in Seattle that led her to discover Marxism and a like-minded husband. The road led to San Francisco, the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union where she worked for twenty-eight years. Elsie spent WWII fighting for her husband's release from a Prisoner of War camp in the United States where he was being held as an illegal German alien.
  • ISBN10 0595518567
  • ISBN13 9780595518562
  • Publish Date 23 December 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint iUniverse
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 252
  • Language English