Afghanistan-Washington's Secret War

Phillip Bonosky was born in Duquesne, Pa., the son of a Lithuanian steel worker. He graduated from high school to be one of the thousands of jobless youth during the Great Depression. He joined the Workers' Alliance and later the WPA Writer's Project in Washington, D.C. Here he managed two years at Washington Wilson Teachers College. During World War II he worked in a steel mill in Duquesne. He is the author of two novels, a biography, and several later books based on his travels in China, Vietnam and the Soviet Union. He was a contributing editor and then co-editor of the cultural monthly Mainstream. In 1968, Bonosky became the first cultural editor of the Daily World and became its Moscow correspondent 1978-1981Phillip Bonosky is the author of 'Afghanistan-Washington's Secret War' with ISBN 9780717807321 and ISBN 0717807320.