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The author should have discussed the role of the CP,
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This review is from: Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934-39 (Hardcover)
I wrote the introduction to this history/memoir and I'd like to make one "correction." As a unionist and leftist, I wanted make clear the organic role played by the American Communist Party and by such stirling Communists as Wyndam Mortimer in the very early days of the CIO and the UAW. But Henry Kraus was clearly ambivalent about such relevations, even 60 and 70 years after. So in the text, such political candor is muted, and even in the introduction, I acquiesced to the author and dropped a reference to Wyndam Mortimer, who was Kraus' mentor, as a "pioneer Communist." I felt conflicted at the time, and this historiographic thorn has never ceased to irritate, so this note corrects part of the record. I should add, that the book is otherwise excellent and offers a real feel for the internal UAW politics of the 1930s. Nelson Lichtenstein Professor of History University of Virginia |
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Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934-39 by Henry Kraus (Hardcover - December 1, 1993)
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