| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919–1950. By Walter T. Howard. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. xiv, 268p. Bibliography, notes, index. $38.)

For a decade Walter T. Howard has been pioneering the study of the history of the Communist Party in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. In conference papers and journal articles, Professor Howard has examined the efforts of Communist organizers in the region, principally in the 1920s and 1930s. He has relied primarily on local newspapers and the Daily Worker to reconstruct the story of party organizers' efforts to reach out to working people and provide radical left-wing leadership in this period of economic crisis and decline. Howard provides a narrative of repeated campaigns and legal repression that left the Communist Party on the margins of political life in the region.

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