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No glory: one Communist's struggle in difficult times.(James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928)(Book review)

James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928

by Bryan D. Palmer

University of Illinois Press, 2007

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The extraordinary British radical historian Edward Thompson described one of his goals as being to spare those whose lives and dreams are lost to history from the "enormous condescension of posterity." In writing the first half of the life of James P. Cannon, Bryan Palmer takes up an even more ambitious task. Given that Cannon later became the central figure in U.S. Trotskyism, Palmer's task was both to spare Cannon the condescension of the mainstream and to save him from the uncritical adulation of ...

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