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Illegal harassment doesn't stop essential workers from organizing for their rights. So business owners attack them with an unlawful militia, provoking a general strike. The Shingle Creek community continues its campaign for workers' rights despite illegal harassment. So panicking wealthy Fat Cats step up their bullying. Cops kill Fred, an…
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David R. Yale’s novel, Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps, has everything—murder, class warfare, struggle for justice, romance, and sex, including one of the most sensuous love scenes you’ll ever read.
With a cast of characters headed by 19-year-old Paul Mckinen, who is remarkably wise with leadership qualities beyond his age, Yale takes us into a Minnesota community called Shingle Creek during one winter month in 1972 where working-class people are struggling to improve their socioeconomic condition by taking on the age-old challenge often hurled at minorities and women to be more self-reliant: “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” Although dating…
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