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10 wrz 2009 · By Erika Dreifus. If you visit my Practicing Writing blog, you know that I'm a longtime fan of John Griswold (also known in the writing world as "Oronte Churm"). So I was thrilled when John announced that his first novel, A Democracy of Ghosts, was to be published by Wordcraft of Oregon.
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1 sty 2011 · A Democracy of Ghosts by koeninger. Publication date 2011-01-01 Publisher McGrawhill Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 695.8M . Access-restricted-item ... DOWNLOAD OPTIONS No suitable files to display here.
He is the author of A Democracy of Ghosts; Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City; and Pirates You Don’t Know (Georgia). He has also written extensively (as Oronte Churm) at Inside Higher Ed and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He lives in the St. Louis metro area.
1 lip 2009 · A DEMOCRACY OF GHOSTS is the love story of four couples, set against the backdrop of the Herrin Massacre of 1922. This clash of miners and strikebreakers in Bloody Williamson County, in Southern Illinois, resulted in the deaths of 21 men -- 19 of them the "scabs" tortured and murdered by average men, women, and even children in what was once ...
4 lis 2010 · A Democracy of Ghosts is a work of historical fiction about the Herrin Massacre, an event that took place in 1922 in the small city of Herrin in Southern Illinois. The Herrin Massacre occurred after scab workers were brought downstate from Chicago to work a strip mine where United Mine Workers of America union members were on strike.
1 lip 2009 · A brilliant and lyrical historical novel, Democracy of Ghosts conjures the affairs behind one of the most violent labor disputes in American history--the brutal killing of 21 scabs and coal miners at a strip mine in Southern Illinois in 1921.
