Phillip Bonosky

)[4] In 1940, as President of the Washington division of the Workers Alliance of America, Bonosky worked for the American Peace Committee to stop US entry into World War 2.

He met with Eleanor Roosevelt to discuss government cuts in Works Progress Administration programs, an event that was reported in the press.

Friend and, for a time, fellow Communist Party member Angela Davis quoted Bonosky as giving his view of the period.

It is a period which will continue to serve both the present and the future as a reminder and an example of how an aroused people, led and spurred on by the working-class, can change the entire complexion of the culture of a nation.

In the 1960s, Bonosky interviewed Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh[8] and became cultural editor for the Communist Party newspaper Daily World.

He has published several collections of his work, including Beyond the Borders of Myth: From Vilnius to Hanoi (1967), Afghanistan: Washington’s Secret War (1985), Devils in Amber: The Baltics (1992.

Author and literary critic Mike Gold wrote, "This novel ... adds a burning page to the story of the immigrant workers who built the heavy industry of America.