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Mustering out of the U.S. army in 1919, Harry Haywood stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Within months, he found himself in the middle of one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history and realized that he'd been fighting the wrong war--the real enemy was right here at home. This book is Haywood's eloquent account of coming of age as a black man in twentieth-century America and of his political awakening in the Communist Party.

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Presents Haywood in motion and thought--the revolutionary, theoretician, strategist, and above all, the man wrestling with his times. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Presents Haywood in motion and thought the revolutionary, theoretician, strategist, and above all, the man wrestling with his times. Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Presents Haywood in motion and thought--the revolutionary, theoretician, strategist, and above all, the man wrestling with his times. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

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Harry Haywood (1898-1985) was a worker-intellectual. He studied at the Lenin School in Moscow, then returned to the United States in 1930 to become a leading member of the Communist Party of the United States. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is professor of history at Michigan State University and professor emerita of history at Rutgers University. She is the widow of Harry Haywood.

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