The concept of generation as a historical category has never been used more effectively than in Lost Comrades. The socialists of the Front Generation, young men in 1914, were driven into political activity and ideological exploration by the experience of the First World War. The…
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"Bryan D. Palmer's study of James P. Cannon (1890-1974) concentrates on the emergence of the American revolutionary left in the 1910-28 years. The book explores how a labor militant was made in the small-town, working-class milieu of Rosedale, Kansas. It then chronicles the rise…
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 c…
