The New Leader, March 24th, 1997
By James G. Ryan Alabama. 332 pp. $34. 95.
Reviewed by Richard Gid Powers Professor of history, City University of New York; author, "Not Without Honor: The History of American Anti-Communism "
By coincidence, while I was reading James G. Ryan's biography of Earl Browder I happened to see the film Donnie Brasco. In it Al Pacino plays the over-the-hill, never-could-have-been-a-contender Lefty Ruggiero ("I clipped 26 guys for them and did they move me up? No, they passed me by"). The character made me think of Earl Browder, and of Browder's dream of striding the stage of world revolutionary ...
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