Will Parry was just a boy when the stock market crashed in 1929. But he understood what the Great Depression meant when his father's business went bankrupt in Seattle: Money was tight, he says, very tight.
The older Parry got, the more he also understood the speeches of the leftist labor organizers and Wobblies that his father took him to see in the 1930s. By the time he was in college, Parry firmly believed in the ideal of communism and, with it, that working people, not bankers, know what's best for the common welfare. ...