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Boomer

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Uiv. Of California, 1990. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Boomer by Nieman, Linda Signed Univ. of California Press, 1990, First, ISBN: 0520068440 Hardback in good condition with good dust jacket. Text is clean an unmarked, binding tight. Cloth cover is clean and dust jacket shows little if any signs of wear. Seeing an ad in her Sunday paper "Brakemen Wanted" started Ms. Nieman on an adventure of a life time. Becoming a brakeman then a "Boomer" which is a brakeman who follows the as it migrates with the seasons and with periods of boom and bust she became one of the first women to go railroading with the Southern Pacific and perhaps the only one with a Ph.D. This is the story of her years on the road. Glossary of railroad terms, 245 pages.

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  • ISBN 10 0520068440
  • ISBN 13 9780520068445
  • Publisher Uiv. Of California
  • Date Published 1990
  • Keywords RAILROADS, BREAKMEN

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Univ Of Ca Press, 1990-02-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.0000 in x 9.4000 in x 5.9000 in. Signed by the author and inscribed on the front free page: Marsha, Railroad Women's Reunion, Felton, July '90. Linda G. Niemann. The author's business card is laid in. No other markings in lightly read. book. Small tears to DJ on spine near the top edge. One tear is a small puncture mark that also punctured the back cover at the spine edge.
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Hardcover -fascinating book women Railroad employees - in excellent shape dust jacket is crisp- there is some age spotting on the edges of pages- darker Aqua boards gold title spine pretty yellow and paper-– first printing book is clean unmarked otherwise-photograph Lauren Crux -jacket design 17th Street Studios--"Boomer is a fascinating mix of fact, history, self-confession, self-accusation, & self-forgiveness―a diary of both emotional relationships and travel-a remarkable adventure tale, the occupational odyssey of the Ph.D. in literature - immerses herself -blue-collar America. Book also reveals much about the state of the nation's railroads in the post-Reagan era- hazards of the work, the safety violations-compromises of the unions, the harassment of women and minorities, the transient &often self-destructive lifestyles. At the same time & author confronts herself, exploring her alcoholism & substance abuse-difficulties with friends & lovers of both sexes; what it was in the life that… Read More
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