Bruce Ramsey | The Seattle Times

January 18, 2019 at 10:12 am

The Seattle General Strike of 1919 and a century of evolution | Op-Ed

Coming next month is the 100th anniversary of the largest strike in Seattle history. On Feb. 6, 1919, 60,000 workers went out: metalworkers, longshoremen, truck...

November 13, 2018 at 3:48 pm

Big Oil and Big Soda save the people from bad ideas | Op-Ed

Big Oil and Big Soda stopped some bad ideas from becoming law.

August 13, 2018 at 2:36 pm

A lesson for today in Tacoma’s fall and Seattle’s rise in the 1890s | Op-Ed

The financial disaster of the 1890s helped to cast the fate of Washington’s two largest Puget Sound cities.

March 27, 2015 at 5:03 am

Blaine Harden’s story of the tyrant and the fighter pilot | Book review

Blaine Harden’s book “The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot” interweaves two stories: that of North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung and No Kum Sok,...

February 20, 2015 at 6:05 am

‘The Monopolists’: the history behind a great board game | Book review

In her new book, “The Monopolists,” New York Times reporter Mary Pilon traces the many antecedents of the board game that eventually became one of...

November 16, 2014 at 5:03 am

‘Midnight in Siberia’: tracking the essential Russian character

‘Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia’ by David Greene Norton, 320 pp., $26.95 An American correspondent in Moscow sums up...

August 17, 2014 at 6:05 am

‘Disobeying Hitler:’ a harrowing choice at WWII’s end

“Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie” by Randall Hansen Oxford University Press, 480 pp., $29.95 In the last months of World War II in Europe...

June 8, 2014 at 6:05 am

‘A Very Principled Boy’: Soviet spies in the U.S. government

‘A Very Principled Boy: The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior’ by Mark A. Bradley Basic Books, 384 pp., $29.99 During World...

May 18, 2014 at 6:05 am

‘The Fourth Revolution’: Brits eye our ailing government

‘The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State’ by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge Penguin, 290 pp., $27.95 “The Fourth Revolution” is an...

April 6, 2014 at 6:15 am

‘Frontier Boosters’: Port Townsend’s elusive dream

‘Frontier Boosters: Port Townsend and the Culture of Development in the American West’ by Elaine Naylor McGill-Queen’s University Press, 304 pp., $29.95 The leaders of...