The Great Lobster War

by Ronald P. Formisano

This work is an account of the clash over prices between the Maine lobstermen, the dealers and the federal government in the 1950s. It focuses upon the reality of the Lobster War strike and the trial, where lobstermen matched wits with government lawyers.

176 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1997

About the author

A specialist in the field of United States political culture and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth century and a founder of the “ethnocultural school” of US political history, Ron Formisano was the William T. Bryan Chair of American History at the University of Kentucky, where he taught from 2001 until his retirement in 2014. He earned a BA at Brown University and an MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison before receiving his PhD from Wayne State University. Formisano also taught at the University of Florida (1990-2001), Clark University (1973-1990), and the University of Rochester (1968-1973).

Reviews

[Sarah Faber]

Never met an ethnography of fishing the commons I didn’t like and this book which my grandma got me bc the hero is my great grandfather is no exception. The word “individualism” is used probably average 1x per page which bothered me but other than that very fun very my genre