Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War 19th Amendment with 373 career victories during

with 373 career victories during twenty seasons in the Major Leagues

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

The authoritative text is supported by specially commissioned artwork and mapping plus carefully chosen archive photographs

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

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Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War 19th Amendment with 373 career victories duringDescription 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,