Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor Highlight

The woman behind the New Deal was a queer feminist, a self-proclaimed “revolutionist” who fought for what was right even when it was unpopular, and refused to back down even after her bitter male colleagues in Congress tried to impeach her in 1939 over her support for radical union leader Harry Bridges. “I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen,” she said of her time in government. And that is exactly what she did.