Ahmed White

"[17][18] History News Network gives White "great credit" for engaging in a "reevaluation" of the Little Steel Strike and its impact, and says he "shines an overdue spotlight" on President Franklin D. Roosevelt's role in the episode.

"[20] Kevin Baker, author of (among other publications) The Big Crowd, calls The Last Great Strike "a brilliant, incisive, always intriguing, sometimes heartbreaking account of critical moment in America's labor history.

"[21] Dale Maharidge, author of Journey to Nowhere, which inspired Bruce Springsteen's song, Youngstown, says the book is "a must-read for anyone interested in today's labor issues.

In October 2022, the University of California Press published White's second book, Under the Iron Heel, which documents the rise and fall of the Industrial Workers of the World or "IWW," whose members are often referred to as Wobblies.

In so doing, the book reveals the remarkable courage of those who faced this campaign, lays bare the origins of the profoundly unequal and conflicted nation we know today, and uncovers disturbing truths about the law, political repression, and the limits of free speech and association in class society.