“You don’t remember the Wobblies. You were too young. Or else not even born yet. There never has been anything like them, before or since,” home-spun hero, philosopher, and Army private Jack Malloy passionately asserts in James Jones’ 1951 novel From Here to Eternity. “. . . They were workstiffs and bindlebums like you and me, but they were welded together by a vision we don’t possess. It was their vision that made them great.” Jones’ explication of the radical labor politics shared by Malloy and the Industrial Workers of the World (or Wobblies) ends with the observation that the Read more