Career
Prior to publishing The Hoaxers, the working title for the two volumes was Countdown—United States of America
The book received favorable advance comments from Robert West. Kenny and Congressman Dalip Singh Saund among others, as printed on the dustcover. Kominsky had run in 1938 for Governor of Rhode Island as the candidate of the Communist Party United States of America, losing to Republican William Henry Vanderbilt III. Collections of Kominsky"s papers are held at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research in Los Angeles, California and the American Jewish Archives in New York City, New New York
