Jimmy Higgins : The Mental World of the American Rank and File Communist, 1930-1958

by Aileen S. Kraditor

This study fills a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on the Communist Party by examining the mental world of the wholly committed rank-and-file Party member. Jimmy Higgins was an imaginary composite considered the ideal for members to emulate; the attitudes and beliefs held by Jimmy Higgins-type members have not been adequately studied until now. As Kraditor demonstrates these members differed in important ways from the Party leaders and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313262462
• ISBN13: 9780313262463
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 6.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"