The engrossing tale of the first audacious protest march on Washington—a precursor of the Occupy movement. In 1893, after a major British bank failure, a run

On May 1, 1894, Jacob S. Coxey led an army of tattered, hungry, unemployed people from western and mid-western states to Washington, D.C., to persuade Congress

In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of M

"Beautifully written. Lucy G. Barber has taken different stories and woven them together so that each builds into a larger narrative about the history of politi

A colorful study of the nineteenth century march on Washington, the man who led it, and the national sensation that prefigured the New Deal. In 1893, America wa