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Liebler, with a foreword by Ben Hamper \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eOctober 19, 2010 • 6.5 x 9 • 550 pages • 978-1-56689-248-3\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePoets, rock stars, filmmakers, activists, novelists, and historians lend their voices to this landmark collection about the daily grind.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the White Stripes’s “The Big Three Killed My Baby” to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include:\u003cbr\u003eAmiri Baraka, Eminem, Mark Nowak, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Woody Guthrie, Edward Sanders, Willa Cather, Lolita Hernandez, John Sayles, Andrei Codrescu, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Bret Lott, Quincy Troupe, Dorothy Day, Thomas Lynch, Jack White, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Walt Whitman, Bob Dylan, Michael Moore . . . and many more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM. 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