{"product_id":"goliath-at-sunset-9798989802586","title":"Goliath at Sunset","description":"\u003cp\u003eFresh from the projects and a stint in Vietnam, Mike Shea hires into a sprawling shipyard south of the city at the height of Boston's racial clashes. When he encounters a ruthless company and a union leadership whose militancy has faded with the years, Shea reaches across the yard's explosive color line to join and then lead a movement for justice and respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs contracts for marine tankers are cancelled, management ratchets down on the workforce, igniting chaos and fear throughout the yard. Then a dangerously damaged tanker limps into the yard, triggering hope for new work but forcing Shea and the welders to choose between risking their lives and losing their jobs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrandow's nine years working as a shipyard welder and union activist inspired Goliath At Sunset, a novel of the American working class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jon Brandow hits a home-run with his compelling and absorbing tale of the struggle for workers' rights in a Massachusetts shipyard. The book is simply marvelous and so completely absorbing I did not want to even pause in reading it.\" Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of The Man Who Changed Colors and The Man Who Fell From the Sky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brandow weaves a telling text, capturing diverse voices, youthful energy, and a shipyard's vocabulary and slang...Even if the reader is not a welder, the workplace's cadence and challenges, along with the pride in craft, shines through... For an authentic working-class novel, one can't go wrong with Goliath at Sunset.\"  Mike Matejka, \u003cstrong\u003ePower at Work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hard Ball Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890599690514,"sku":"9798989802586","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2786afae-9f25-4dfa-a957-2b73fc3f429d.jpg?v=1768310213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/goliath-at-sunset-9798989802586","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}