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The Bread-Winners

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/May 20, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 16:38, 1 May 2015 (UTC)



The Bread-Winners is an 1883 novel by John Hay, former secretary to Abraham Lincoln who in 1898 became Secretary of State. The book takes an anti-labor stance, and when published anonymously provoked considerable public interest in determining who the author was. Hay wrote his only novel as a reaction to several strikes that affected him and his business interests in the 1870s and early 1880s. Originally published in installments in The Century Magazine, the book attracted wide interest. Hay had left hints as to his identity in the novel, and some guessed right, but he never acknowledged the book as his, and it did not appear with his name on it until after his death in 1905. Hay's hostile view of organized labor was soon seen as outdated, and the book is best remembered for its onetime popularity and controversial nature.
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 * Main editors: Wehwalt
 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: Well, there's a lot of hay fever going around just now.
 * Support as nominator. Wehwalt (talk) 00:20, 22 April 2015 (UTC)