 This is Pacifica Radio's Letters on Politics. On today's show... I would say one of the people who was most important to me in developing this project was a Chinese-American writer named H.T. Tsong, who wrote a book in 1935, a novel called The Hanging in Union Square. The character essentially starts out destitute, trying to find a place to sleep, trying to find food to eat, and ends up at the end of it aligned with the Communist Party. So it is a kind of classic proletarian novel narrative. But along the way,