The Borderlander

The Borderlander

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Working-class politics and culture.

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About Michael Patrick F. Smith

Smith is a writer, musician and factotum. His book The Good Hand (A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown) is available from Viking Press.