Steve Nelson, American Radical

by James R. Barrett, Steve Nelson, Rob Ruck

Book Overview

This remarkable oral biography, recounted in collaboration with two historians, describes day-to-day life in the party and traces Nelson's career from his beginnings in the Pennsylvania coalfields to his secret work as a party courier in the Far East; from the battlefields of Civil War Spain to the jails of cold war Pittsburgh; and from a small group of Communist autoworkers in Detroit to the upper reaches of party leadership in New York.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822934418
• ISBN13: 9780822934417
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.