A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
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A Covert Life tersely chronicles the life of one of the more obscure warriors of the cold war. Jay Lovestone, born Jacob Liebstein, cut his teeth as a youth in the leftist street culture of New York's Lower East Side. Although present at the formation of the U.S. Communist Party in 1919, he was forced out of the Comintern in 1929 by Stalin's political maneuverings. By the end of the Depression, Lovestone broke cleanly with the Soviets and, after World War II, founded the Free Trade Union Commission, an AFL-backed movement that organized noncommunist labor unions outside of the United States. He also developed a
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Manufacturer: Random House
Release date: 16 March 1999
ISBN-10 : 0679444009 | ISBN-13: 9780679444008
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Release date: 16 March 1999
ISBN-10 : 0679444009 | ISBN-13: 9780679444008
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