Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War 19th Amendment the immigrant wards of Omaha

the immigrant wards of Omaha become a tinderbox of racial resentment stoked by unscrupulous politicians

practiced storyteller

hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy: Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of cruelty and violence that hurtles through the improbable travels of the petit bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero

a star war reporter for the Saturday Evening Post

Hastings also re-creates the lesser-known battles on the Eastern Front

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War 19th Amendment the immigrant wards of OmahaDescription By Jeanette Keith Paperback During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local authorities; capturing them required the dispatch of federal troops into three southern states. Jeanette Keith traces southern draft resistance to several sources,