Aa Socialist revolution breaks out in the United States in 1914. A Berekely, CA Socialist Congressman wife records the intrique and actions of these days in her diary. Hundreds of years later the diary is found and the information in it changes history. Jack London's uses many footnotes to define phrases and events because they wouldn't be understood by future generations but in opur times we know the meanings. This is one of London's great political adventure novels whick is a must reading for London followers. This was the first London book your publisher read in the early 1970's which led him to form the Jack London Democratic Socialist Club in Oakland/Berkeley. It also was the motivation for the book \"The Oakland Statement\" another political ficton novel of the early 2000's in the USA. A Collector's Edition. | The Iron Heel by Jack London, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters