Robert W. Cherny is a professor emeritus of history at San Francisco State University. His many books include Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend and Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art.
“A new and important work--no one has attempted such a full assessment on the topic. An excellent addition to the literature on both the American Communist Party and the history of California.”--Katherine A. S. Sibley, author of Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War