Pedersen spent 25 years working on the book, published last February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pedersen said he got the idea for the book in 1995 after reading Out of the Night<\/em> by Jan Valtin, which discusses the Marine Workers\u2019 Industrial Union \u2013 a communist-led union in America in the 1930s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first four chapters of his book are a narrative of the career of George Mink, a controversial figure in American Communist history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe was held up during the Cold War as the absolutely perfect embodiment of cold, ruthless, murderous Soviet agents working internationally and in the United States,\u201d added Pederson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After extensive research, Pedersen discovered that Mink was a Ukraine-born agent of the Communist International, or Comintern, Pedersen said he was amazed at the amount of information he was able to find about Mink, whose handwritten autobiography survives in the Comintern\u2019s files. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedersen gathered all his research and organized it chronologically, which he says occupied two giant filing cabinets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy actual writing process was to sit down every morning at 5:30 a.m. and write three pages, however long that took me,\u201d said Pedersen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedersen said he concentrated on publishing several small articles based on the research he did for the book before he began writing it. This was \u201cone of the reasons it took me so incredibly long to get this thing published,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Abeer Khan UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Head of the International Studies Department at American University of Sharjah, Dr. Vernon Pedersen discussed his book The Communist Party on the American Waterfront in an online talk on Nov. 8. Pedersen spent 25 years working on the book, published last February. Pedersen said he got the idea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-cas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mcmhub.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ins-heads-25-years-research-effort-yields-new-book.jpg\")