Poets, rock stars, filmmakers, activists, novelists, and historians lend their voices to this landmark collection about the daily grind.<BR><BR>"M. L. Liebler is the poet laureate of America's working class. The collection he has assembled rings out with truth, intensity, and love. In a world full of despair, it is comforting to have writers so gifted and generous singing our song of rebellion and hope. This book is the kind of spark we need these days---a rich, intense, and inspiring collection for and about those who get their hands dirty every single day."---Michael Moore<BR><BR>"This book is not `fresh air.' It is a mighty wind. While the nightly news continues to `do the numbers,' as if we were all investors, here's the larger part---the real grit and savor of American life. Spelled out in plain English."---Peter Coyote<BR><BR>"About a hundred years ago Alexander Berkman told Meridel LeSeuer to `write the stories of the people.' M. L. Liebler continues this worthy tradition and ups the ante considerably with this terrific collection of working-class poetry, song, and story. Howard Zinn would have loved this book, and I do too!"---Anne Feeney<BR><BR>"In a moment of moral crisis in these United States, M. L. Liebler has performed a genuine act of public service. His collection reflects the true working ethos of this nation. . . . These stories, songs, and poems aren't relics, but rise off the pages like living things."---Joe Henry<BR><BR>A Collection About Living While Barely Making One, about layoffs and picket lines, about farmers, butchers, miners, waitresses, assembly-line workers, and the "Groundskeeper Busted Reading in the Custodial Water Closet." this is literature by the people and for the people.<BR><BR>From the White Stripes's "The Big Three Killed My Baby" to Eminem's "Lose Yourself"; from the folk anthems of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie to the poems of Walt Whitman and Amiri Baraka, from the stories of Willa Cather and Bret Lott to the rabble-rousing work of Michael Moore---this transcendent volume touches upon all aspects of working-class life.