THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN COMMUNIST - FOSTER,WILLIAM,Z.

Analyses the career of William Zebulon Foster, a leader of the America n Communist Party, and a three-time candidate for President of the Uni ted States under that party's banner. Foster rose from the slums of Ph iladelphia to earn the reputation of an accomplished labour organizer and then to embrace communist ideology. The poverty of his immigrant p arents, and the endless series of dreary jobs he was forced to enter, beginning at age ten, nurtured his rebellious spirit and cultivated an antagonism towards capitalism. Emphasizes the evolution of his ideolo gy from socialism to syndicalism and finally Marxism-Leninism. William Foster found his vocation as an organizer of trade unions on behalf o f the Communist movement. He was a prolific propagandist for and histo rian of the Party. Never deterred by tortuous twists and turns of the party line, he followed it faithfully and inflexibly until his death i n Moscow in 1961.