Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left
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- Synopsis
- Ronald Radosh's earliest memory is of being trundled off to May Day celebrations by his communist parents with a Soviet flag stuck in his baby carriage. Then came education at New York's 'little red schoolhouse'. Summers at 'commie camp'. And college at the University of Wisconsin where he became a founding father of the New Left. This book is a brilliant memoir of growing up in the culture of radicalism. But it also about the hard decisions faced by those professing a radical faith. For Radosh himself, the crisis came when he concluded in his authoritative book on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that the couple (in whose behalf he had demonstrated as a boy) had indeed been guilty of spying. Attacked as a 'traitor', Radosh began to question his political commitments. His disillusionment climaxed in the 1980s when he travelled through Central America as a journalist and historian and ran into his old comrades there still searching for the revolution.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 225 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781893554054
- Publisher:
- Encounter Books
- Date of Addition:
- 01/10/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Ronald Radosh
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Garyp
- Proofread By:
- BookMouse
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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