School of Darkness

Download or read book School of Darkness written by Bella Visono Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bella Dodd was a member of the Communist Party's National Committee and the legislative representative of its New York State Committee, a member of the State Board and the State Secretariat. She worked with the Party during the busy period of the Democratic Front in World War II, the Rapp-Coudert investigation of Communist teachers, in behalf of Loyalist Spain, on the Women's Trade Union for Peace. As legislative representative for the Teachers' Union and later for the Communist Party she knew well the famous "Ninth Floor" of Communist headquarters where policy was shaped. In 1949 she was expelled from the Party. What is her story and the causes leading to break with cause she had served so long? Here for the first time is given the full account of the life of an extraordinary woman and of the process by which she, like many young idealists of good minds, grasped Communism as a new gospel, a new faith, for which one could work sacrificially, and how those efforts were used and abused by the Communist leaders in this country"--