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Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards Won Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association)
The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental…
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The only way I can describe this book is as a masterpiece.
Cherny spent decades researching and writing this book, including extensive work in the Moscow Archives and hours of interviews with Bridges himself. The result is an intimate study of a life dedicated to radicalism that brings Bridges and the San Francisco waterfront vividly to life.
I have only one criticism of the book. Bridges spent his life denying that he had been a member of the Communist Party, but the records in Moscow demonstrate that he belonged to the Party and was a member of its Central Committee.…
From Vernon's list on American communism.
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