Tom Grogan
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Tom Grogan is a stevedore contractor on the Staten Island waterfront, hires and fires, faces down the union and the local bosses — and is a woman, running her dead husband's business under his name because no one would give a contract to a widow. Smith built the foundation of the Statue of Liberty and painted watercolors for major museums; this 1896 novel was drawn from a woman he had watched do i...
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Tom Grogan is a stevedore contractor on the Staten Island waterfront, hires and fires, faces down the union and the local bosses — and is a woman, running her dead husband's business under his name because no one would give a contract to a widow. Smith built the foundation of the Statue of Liberty and painted watercolors for major museums; this 1896 novel was drawn from a woman he had watched do i...
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