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Able to lead : disablement, radicalism, and the political life of  E.T. Kingsley

Able to lead : disablement, radicalism, and the political life of E.T. Kingsley

Book 2021

"Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York, by 1890, he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that followed took him north of the border where he eventually was considered by the government to be "one of the most dangerous men in Canada." Able to Lead traces Kingsley's political journey from soapbox speaker in San...