A retelling of Jack London · 1908
The Iron Heel
“A professor's daughter in Berkeley falls in love with a working-class revolutionary and watches, step by step, as the great trusts crush the middle class, buy off the unions, smash the socialists in Congress and drown a rising in Chicago in blood — the story of the coming of the Oligarchy, told in a manuscript found centuries later.”
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Contents6 episodes · ~22 min
- 1My Eagle (Foreword and Chapters 1–3)Free
- 2The Philomaths (Chapters 4–7)🔒
- 3The Vortex (Chapters 8–11)🔒
- 4The End of the Old Order (Chapters 12–16)🔒
- 5In the Shadow of Sonoma (Chapters 17–21)🔒
- 6The Chicago Commune (Chapters 22–25)🔒