Fighting for freedom

[Costa Mesa, CA]: the author, 1953. Pamphlet. 160p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps slightly soiled, paper slightly browned else good condition. Autobiography of Shoaf, a radical journalist who represented the Appeal to Reason in Colorado and Idaho (1904-7), when he covered the Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone trial. He also wrote for many other radical periodicals. His reporting tended to be melodramatic and at times counterfactual. (Inventory #: 46981)