Lukas, J. Anthony

A history of the 1905 assassination of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg, focusing on the ensuing trial of Bill Haywood and two other members of the Western Federation of Miners and highlighting the trial's impact on social conflict in turn-of-the-century America.

Profiles the lives of three families in the 1970s as they deal with urban racial issues and school desegregation in Boston over a ten-year period. Follows the McGoff, Twyman, and Diver families, which include a widowed Irish-American family, an African-American family, and a white liberal middle-class family. Describes each family's historical roots and the role of the public figures who shaped the course of the families' lives.