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Iron City
Inspired by the writer's own experiences as a labor organizer and as a labor prisoner, this well-crafted novel tells the story of Lonnie James, a youth falsely convicted of murder, and the fight to save his life organized by three Communist black prisoners inside the "iron city" of a state penitentiary in a northern steel-mill center.
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1951
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April 17, 2018
Tragic and powerful. Should be canonical in the Black American modernist tradition, were it not for anti-communist erasure across every academic discipline...
December 3, 2015
Engaging, relevant, vivid characters, spot-on dialogue.
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