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Able to Lead Ravi Malhotra

Able to Lead By Ravi Malhotra

Able to Lead by Ravi Malhotra

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Able to Lead tells the forgotten story of the life of double amputee E.T. Kingsley, a pioneering politician, and labour and justice activist.

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Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley by Ravi Malhotra

Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life: he was once described as one of the most dangerous men in Canada. In 1890, Kingsley was working as a railway brakeman in Montana when an accident left him a double amputee, and politically radicalized. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt trace Kingsley's political journey from soapbox speaker in San Francisco to prominence in the Socialist Party of Canada. They examine Kingsley's endeavours for justice against the Northern Pacific Railway, and how his life intersected with immigration law and free-speech rights. Able to Lead highlights Kingsley's profound legacy for the twenty-first-century political left.

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Able to Lead restores E.T. Kingsley as a major figure among radical labour activists-all the more notable given his visible disability, which was not common among prominent political activists of his time. A welcome addition to disability history.-Geoffrey Reaume, York University


Malhotra and Isitt argue that Kingsley was a-perhaps the-central figure in Canadian socialism before the First World War. This is an informed and nuanced history of disability and legal history.-James Naylor, Brandon University
Able to Lead is a striking and essential retrieval of a life previously untold. As a disabled, working class radical, Kinglsey's story is a novel addition to North American biographies.-James Muir, University of Alberta

Able to Lead restores E.T. Kingsley as a major figure among radical labour activists-all the more notable given his visible disability, which was not common among prominent political activists of his time. A welcome addition to disability history. -- Geoffrey Reaume, York University
Malhotra and Isitt argue that Kingsley was a-perhaps the-central figure in Canadian socialism before the First World War. This is an informed and nuanced history of disability and legal history. -- James Naylor, Brandon University
Able to Lead is a striking and essential retrieval of a life previously untold. As a disabled, working class radical, Kinglsey's story is a novel addition to North American biographies.
-- James Muir, University of Alberta

About Ravi Malhotra

Ravi Malhotra is a professor in the Faculty of Law and cross-appointed to the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Ottawa. He is the co-author, with Morgan Rowe, of Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives: Finding a Voice of Their Own. Benjamin Isitt is a historian and legal scholar based in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19 and Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972, among other publications. Malhotra and Isitt are also co-editors of Disabling Barriers: Social Movements, Disability History and the Law.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Incident at Spring Gulch: Disablement, Litigation, and the Birth of a Revolutionary

2 California Radical: Fighting for Free Speech and Running for Congress in the Socialist Labor Party

3 Crossing the Line: Eugene Kingsley Arrives in British Columbia

4 No Compromise: Kingsley and the Socialist Party of Canada

5 Kingsley and the State

6 The Twilight Years: Kingsley and the 1920s Canadian Left

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Timeline of the Life and Political Times of E.T. Kingsley

Appendix 2: E.T. Kingsley Election Results

Appendix 3: Partial Record of E.T. Kingsley's Public Speeches and Lectures

Appendix 4: Obituary for E.T. Kingsley

Notes; Index

Additional information

CIN0774865776VG
9780774865777
0774865776
Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley by Ravi Malhotra
Ravi Malhotra
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of British Columbia Press
20211201
320
N/A
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