Benjamin Gitlow
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 58 years ago |
Date of birth | December 22,1891 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Elizabethport |
Elizabeth | |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Date of died | July 19,1965 |
Died | Crompond |
New York | |
United States | |
Spouse | Badana Zeitlin |
Books | I Confess: The Truth about American Communism |
Party | Workers Party of America |
Previous position | New York State Representative (1918–1918) |
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ID | 686603 |
Benjamin Gitlow Life story
Benjamin Gitlow was a prominent American socialist politician of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Communist Party USA. During the end of the 1930s, Gitlow turned to conservatism and wrote two sensational exposés of American Communism, books which were very influential during the McCarthy period.