James P. Cannon and the origins of the American revolutionary left, 1890-1928 /
Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. Written with panache, Palmer's richly detailed book situates American communi...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press
[2007]
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| Series: | Working class in American history.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcpf9 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The communist can(n)on
- Rosedale roots: facts and fictions
- Youth's discoveries
- Hobo rebel/homeguard
- Red dawn
- Underground
- Geese in flight
- Pepper spray
- Stalinist suspensions
- Labor defender
- Living with Lovestone
- Expulsion
- Conclusion: James P. Cannon, the United States revolutionary movement, and the end of an age of innocence.