Forging American Communism : The Life of William Z. Foster /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johanningsmeier, Edward P., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1994]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Foster, William Z., > 1881-1961.
Communists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Communistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Communists > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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

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