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| | Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism. - book reviews Washington Monthly - Find Articles |
 | | Even disregarding his politics, Browder does not come across as even remotely likable, and Ryan, a professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston, is to be congratulated, if not pitied, for having the fortitude to spend years in the company of such an unpleasant subject. |
 | | Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1891, Browder was the son of a failed farmer and school teacher. |
 | | Prison for Browder, as for his Bolshevik heroes, was a school for revolution; it taught him discipline and gave him time to read the Marxist classics and nurse his already festering resentment against American society. |
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