“A meticulous portrait…. Believable and compelling.”

James A. Michener

“A grand saga…. Tragic, horrifying and forever memorable to any human conscience in its substance, yes, but done with such extraordinary discipline of thought and writing that The Guns of Lattimer becomes not just an historical but a literary work of the first magnitude.”

Robert A. Nisbet

“… an important and moving contribution to ethnic and labor history. It should be read by all those interested in how the ‘blood, sweat, and tears’ of American immigrant workers enlarged the meaning of democracy”

Seymour Martin Lipset

“ Michael Novak has restored the Lattimer Massacre as one of the tragic moments of American history along with Harper’s Ferry and Kent State. Long forgotten, this wanton killing of twenty Slavic miners and the wounding of many more becomes in Novak’s telling a gripping account of ethnic and labor conflict.”

Rudolph J. Vecoli
Director, Immigration History Research Center