Red Harvest: The Communist Party and American Farmers [signed] [first edition]

Scholarly study of Communist efforts to organize American farmers from 1919 to 1950; despite the pressures of war & depression, America was never near falling into 'Communism', but the organizations and activities of Communist agitators did fundamentally change American agriculture. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; INSCRIBED by the author to a mentor, historian Allan G. Bogue: "To Allan - With Best Wishes to a First Boss and Good Friend, Lowell". Dyson was a historian for over forty years, and founded the HOAC, Historians of American Communism, in 1982, to facilitate research into the CPUSA. Light wear to book; jacket has a short tear & minor edgewear. Text clean; xii, 259 pages; index, bibliographic essay, notes. Size: Octavo