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Commies : a journey through the old left, the new left and the leftover left
- Title
- Commies : a journey through the old left, the new left and the leftover left / Ronald Radosh.
- Author
- Radosh, Ronald.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Encounter, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HX86 .R25 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Ronald Radosh's earliest memory is of being trundled off to a May Day demonstration on Fifth Avenue by his Communist parents. His boyhood heroes were his uncle Irving Keith (his Communist Party name), who fought in the Spanish Civil War, and his mother's cousin Jacob Abrams, a famous Jewish anarchist who lived in "exile" in Mexico City and was a friend of Trotsky's."
- "Radosh has been called "the Zelig of the American Left - seen everywhere and knowing everyone." Indeed, Commies is filled with memorable portraits of the people he has met in his unique journey - schoolmate Mary Travers, later of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary; Pete Seeger, who taught him the banjo and the Communist Party's musical line; young Bob Dylan, who played folk music with him at Radosh's apartment in Madison. Michael Harrington, Tom Hayden, Michael Lerner, William Appleman Williams, Irving Howe, and all the others who made "the Movement" are also actors in Radosh's drama." "But if Commies is an intimate social history of the American Left over the past half-century, it is also a compelling story of a crisis of radical faith."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Red Diapers -- Commie Camp -- The Little Red Schoolhouse -- The Red Campus in the Post-McCarthy Era -- Towards a New Left -- My 1960s in New York City -- The Personal is Political -- Socialist Lobotomies -- Party Lines -- My Rosenberg Case and Theirs -- Adventures in Sandinistaland -- Coming Home.
- ISBN
- 1893554058
- 9781893554054
- 189355452X
- 9781893554528
- LCCN
- 2001023668
- OCLC
- ocm46401840
- 46401840
- SCSB-14698820
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library