{"product_id":"yankee-radical","title":"Yankee Radical","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrings Connecticut suffragist and socialist Emily Pierson out of the shadows, exploring her role in the social and political movements that shook America from the 1910s to the Cold War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once the story of a largely forgotten local firebrand of left politics in Connecticut, \u003ci\u003eYankee Radical\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the life and activism of Emily Miller Pierson. Born in Cromwell, Connecticut, Pierson was the scion of a wealthy family that owned an industrial-scale horticultural firm. After graduating from Vassar College in 1907, she immersed herself in the suffrage movement, becoming the primary ground-level organizer and strategist in her state. During the 1930s, she raised her political involvement to a new level, as Connecticut's most prominent supporter of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union, and later China. Her activities as a spokesperson, leader, and \"financial angel\" of the left over three decades earned her FBI surveillance and a spot on the US government's Security Index for possible detention. Still, she clung fiercely to her radical beliefs up until her death at the age of eighty-nine. Drawing on Pierson's papers and FBI file, Richard Lenzi offers an in-depth look at the political and social setting in which Pierson operated, from the development of industrial unionism in the state to McCarthyism and the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260683198808,"sku":"9798855806687","price":106.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9798855806687_b22eb450-1407-4cf1-856c-c63bb4982b97.jpg?v=1780452926","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/yankee-radical","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}