The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism Paperback - 2003

PHILIP CANNISTRARO is Distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. An authority on the Italian American experience and the history of modern Italy, he has written numerous books, including works on fascist cultural policy, a biography of Margherita Sarfatti, and Blackshirts in Little Italy. Cannistraro has also edited The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement and is coauthor of a major college textbook, The Western Perspective: A History of Civilization in the West. He is currently writing a biography of Benito Mussolini.

GERALD MEYER is Professor Emeritus of History at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, and author of Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954. He has also written more than 40 articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries on subjects ranging from Italian American educator Leonard Covello, to the history of Little Italies, and aspects of the Italian American encounter with the American Left. Meyer lectures widely and is an editor of Science & Society and The Italian American Review. He is currently working on a history of the American Labor Party.