History of the Communist Party of the United States

by William Z. Foster

Book by Foster, William Zebulon

Genres: History, United States

600 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

Labor organizer and Marxist politician. Joined the Socialist party in 1901, later became a Wobbly, Syndicalist, and Communist. Three times a presidential candidate of the Communist party.

Reviews

[Jacob Woocher · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is both an essential history of the CPUSA by a first-hand participant and a sweeping and sophisticated marxist analysis of US history as a whole from the vantage point of 1950. However, I would have preferred for Foster to have gone into more detail on the former topic and less on the latter.