Forging American Communism : : The Life of William Z. Foster / / Edward P. Johanningsmeier.
A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism, William Z. Foster (1881-1961) fought his way out of the slums of turn-of-the-century Philadelphia to become a professional revolutionary as well as a notorious and feared labor agitator. Drawing on private family papers, FBI fil...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | With a New preface by the author |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (458 p.) :; 23 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON SOURCES
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. Beginnings
- CHAPTER 2. Socialist and Syndicalist
- CHAPTER 3. The Syndicalist Leagues
- CHAPTER 4. Labor Organizing in "The Jungle"
- CHAPTER 5. The Great Steel Strike
- CHAPTER 6. Labor Organizer and Communist
- CHAPTER 7. The "Free Lance" and the Communist Party
- CHAPTER 8. "Phrases Learned in Europe"
- CHAPTER 9. The Reluctant Agitator
- CHAPTER 10. The Democratic Front
- CHAPTER 11 "Browderism"
- CHAPTER 12. Unionism, Politics, and the Cold War
- CHAPTER 13. Final Struggles
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- INDEX