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Title: Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography: As Told to Dr. Ben L. Reitman by Box-Car Bertha, Ben L. Reitman, Box-Car, Roger A. Bruns ISBN: 0-941693-06-6 Publisher: Amok Pr Pub. Date: August, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A ripoff!
Comment: "Everything I had set out in life to do I had accomplished. I had wanted to
know how it felt to be a hobo, a radical, a prostitute, a thief, a reformer,
a social worker and a revolutionist. Now, I knew."
With an ending like the above, you've gotta bet that the prior 200 pages are
a fun read.
This book is more-or-less the contemporary of that classic 1930's anti-drug
movie "Refer Madness". We encounter dope fiends, perverts, dreamers,
anarchists, abortionists and many others.
I do, so much, love reading about degenerate behavior!
Somewhere in the folds is a statement that Capitalism is evil. "Sure
society has a right to defind itself. Society has the right to send me to
jail if they get the goods on me. But I've got to eat and sleep and my
child has to have his. I don't justify myself. I know I'm wrong. I know my
example is bad. But I'm so short on funds, I have to".
So, I'm reading along. 100 pages. 200 pages. Thinking to myself, hmmm
.... this woman sure had a lot of adventures in her life.
Then ... incredible, annoying, foulness! An afterward is appended to the
text by the publisher.
"In this, the 4th time that Boxcar Bertha has been reissued, we feel obliged
for the first time to make it plain that this is in fact a work of fiction.
This takes nothing away from the book as far as we are concerned."
BALONEY! What the...?!?! I could understand if they'd let the title
stand (after all, we know that the "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman" is a
novel) but why did they have to leave the binding classification as
"Autobiography"???
I feel so violated. I wouldn't have invested the time if I'd know from the
start that it was fiction. This story is only good if it's true ...
there're a dozen places where I'd have thrown the book down because of
unbelievable-ness if I'd known it were fiction.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great book from the folks at AK.
Comment: Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. This is the second title in the new Nabat series from AK Press that debut with Jack Black's You Can't Win. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout culture that gets left out of the stultifying fairytales that pass for history books - a much more rowdy and messily interesting tradition than the guardians of property, steeped in those other great American traditions of puritanism and hypocrisy, let on.
Hobo jungles, bughouses, whorehouses, Chicago's Main Stem, IWW meeting halls, skid rows and open freight cars - these were the haunts of the free thinking and free loving Bertha Thompson. This vivid autobiography recounts one hell of a rugged woman's hard-living depression-era saga of misadventures with pimps, hopheads, murderers, yeggs, wobblies, and anarchists.
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Title: You Can't Win by Jack Black, William S. Burroughs ISBN: 1902593022 Publisher: AK Pr Distribution Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Hobo by Eddy Joe Cotton ISBN: 1400048095 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Beggars of Life : A Hobo Autobiography by Jim Tully ISBN: 1902593782 Publisher: AK Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Rolling Nowhere : Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes by Ted Conover ISBN: 0375727868 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression by Errol Lincoln Uys ISBN: 0415945755 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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