The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington

The Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth century until World War II. The book serves as a hidden history for a region frequently identified with conservatism, rescuing these working-class activists from obscurity and placing them at the center of southwest Washington’s history.

With a focus on socialists, militant unionists, Wobblies, “Red...