Robert Elliott Burns
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Robert Elliott Burns was an American World War I veteran known for escaping from a Georgia chain gang and publishing the memoir, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, exposing the cruelty and in
Paul Muni portraying Burns in the film version of his memoirs
The Other America
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States is a 1962 book by socialist writer Michael Harrington on the dire living conditions of the American poor. It was a muckraking-style exposé which spotlig
Robert Elliott Burns
…literature intended to spur the American public to opposition of an issue. Some examples of this literature are Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Jungle, and The Other America. Burns's book and subsequent movie are largely credited with the abolition of the chain gang system in the South. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain…
First edition