Preface and Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: James P. Cannon and the "Prince''s Favors" 1 Hope and the Dog Days 2 Historiography''s House of Mirrors 3 Mirror Image Refusals 4 Analytic Alternative 5 Cannon and the History of American Trotskyism 1 An American Left Opposition 1 Exile off Main Street 2 Stalinism Consolidating 3 Stalinist Slow Dancing: Guile 4 Picking up the Pace: Gangsterism 5 Recruiting the American Left Opposition: Three Phases 6 Cannon: Caretaker of the Original Left Opposition Cadre 7 Recruitment''s Second Phase: Stalinism''s Heavy Hand 8 "An Army of a Million People": Hungarians, Italians, Finns, and Immigrant Birth Controllers 9 A Publication Program 10 The Founding of the Communist League of America (Opposition) 2 Dog Days 1 Downturn: Economic Depression 2 "Left Turn": Revolutionary Politics and the Third Period 3 Dimensions of Cannon''s Crisis: Material Being 4 Dimensions of Cannon''s Crisis: Reconstituted Families and Domestic Complications 5 Dimensions of Cannon''s Crisis: Rose Karsner''s Break-Down 6 Cannon''s Collapsing World: The Personal Becomes Political 7 The Weisbord Whirlwind 8 Branch Bickerings: New York Cliquism and Youth Recruits 9 Factional Waystation: June 1932, National Committee Plenum 10 Factionalism Internationalized: The Turn to Europe 11 International Intervention 12 Dog Days Denouement: New Turns 13 Internal Ironies 3 Daylight: Analysis and Action 1 1933-34: Past, Present, and Future 2 Context:Revival/Reorientation 3 The Long and Trying March Back to a Labor Party Perspective 4 Black Oppression in America: National Self-Determination vs. The Revolutionary Struggle for Equality 5 The Momentum of Mobilizations: Unemployed and Labor Defense Work 6 Miner Militants: Cannon''s "Bona Fide Proletarians" 7 B.J. Field: A Napoleon among New York''s French Chefs 8 Dawn of a New Left Opposition Day 4 Minneapolis Militants 1 General Strike 2 Class Relations in Minneapolis 3 Trotskyists among the Teamsters: Propagandistic Old Moles 4 January Thaw; February Cold Snap: The Coal Yards on Strike 5 Lessons of the Coal Yards Strike 6 Strike Preparations: Unemployed Agitations and Industrial Unionism 7 Overcoming "Bureaucratic Obstacles" 8 The Ladies/Women''s Auxiliary 9 Rebel Outpost: 1900 Chicago Avenue 10 The Tribune Alley Plot and the Battle of Deputies Run 11 May 1934: Settlement Secured; Victory Postponed 12 Stalinist Slurs 13 Farmer-Labor Two Class Hybrid vs Class Struggle Perspective 14 Interlude 15 Toward the July Days 16 A Strike Declared; A Plot Exposed 17 Bloody Friday 18 Labor''s Martyr: Henry B. Ness 19 Martial Law/Red Scare 20 Olson: The Defective "Merits" of a Progressive Pragmatism 21 Standing Fast: Satire and Solidarity 22 Mediation''s Meanderings 23 Sudden and Unexpected Victory 5 Entryism 1 1934: Militancy and Marginalization''s Movement 2 The French Turn 3 Cannon, Trotsky, and the Preparatory Ground of Entryism: Transcending the "Organic Unity" Imbroglio 4 Fusion with the Musteites 5 Building the Party amid Fusion''s Fallouts 6 Anticipating the French Turn 7 Americanizing the French Turn: Factions and Combinations 8 The Intensification of Oehlerite Sectarianism 9 Ousting the Oehlerites 10 Socialist Party Schisms and Workers Party Entry 11 Prelude to Entry: Cannon in Harness and Muste''s Conversions 12 Entryism & Subordination 13 A Farmer-Labor Detour and the Return of the Oehlerite Repressed 14 Entry Proclaimed 15 Cannon in California: The "Foot Loose Rebel" and the Agitational Road 16 Entryist Estrangement 17 The Return of the Prodigal Agitator 18 Reaction from Above 19 The End of Entry 20 Assessing the French Turn in America 6 Trials, Tragedies, and Trade Unions 1 1937''s Imperative: Assimilating Revolution''s Recruits 2 The Origins of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 3 The Non-partisan Origins of Trotsky''s Defense 4 Dancing with Dewey 5 Trotsky''s Testimony 6 Carleton Beals and Stalinism at Work in the Preliminary Sub-commission 7 Delimitation by Default 8 Social-Democratic Delimitation 9 Brand Barcelona on Centrist Foreheads: Trotskyism and the Spanish Civil War 10 Trotskyism Finds its "Sea Legs": Cannon and the Maritime Federation of the Pacific 11 Frame-Up in Minneapolis: Who Killed Patrick J. Corcoran? 12 Trotskyism on the Line: Footholds in Mass Production and the CIO Conclusion: Party/International References Index.