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The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle
The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle: Jazz-age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot | Franklin Rosemont
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Cultural Writing. Founded in 1914 by former Wobbly Jack Jones, Irish revolutionist Jim Larkin, and a group of IWW-oriented Bughouse Square hobos and soapboxers, the Dil Pickle in just a few years was widely recognized as the wildest, most playful, most creative, and most radical nightspot in the known universe--especially after Dr. Ben Reitman (Emma Goldman's former lover and press agent) joined the club in 1917. In this book--the first ever devoted to one of this country's most colorful and best-loved counter-institutions--Franklin Rosemont has collected forty-one reminiscences of the Dil Pickle by poets, artists, journalists, novelists, hobos, scholars, anarchists, wobblies, and other assorted radicals and oddballs.
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Step high, stoop low, and leave your dignity outside with this special homage to the most creative and radical nightspot in the known universe.

Part of our 𝑷𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒓𝒔 line of graphic tees.
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Introducing the 𝑷𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒓𝒔 line of t-shirts:

A tribute to remarkable places and events of the past that, though real, never had the chance to boast official keepsakes.
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A massive restock from AK Press has just arrived❗

Titles include:

▪ The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle Club by Franklin Rosemont
▪ DYNAMITE by Louis Adamic
▪ Down With the Law by Mitchell Abidor
▪ Beggars of Life by Jim Tully
▪ An American Anarchist by Paul Avrich
▪ Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre edited by Alexander Berkman
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https://underworldamusements.com/collections/ak-press