... he reflected with his own life's private struggles and accomplishments. Jack London was the most flamboyant literary representative of the Strenuous Age in America. At the height of that era his name was a by word for rugged individualism and romantic adventure, and his private life seemed to be in every major newspaper in the country. It seems that ... the underprivileged and working classes, and so he joined a group of militant workers, who were going to Washington to protest the wretched working conditions in the country, caused by the Depression of 1894. Jack never made it to Washin...

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