| Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left Contributor(s): Radosh, Ronald (Author) |
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ISBN: 189355452X ISBN-13: 9781893554528 Publisher: Encounter Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: Penning a brilliant memoir of growing up in the culture of radicalism, the son of communist parents gives the most intimate look yet at the experience of a revolutionary generation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 973.088 |
| LCCN: 2001023668 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.73" W x 8.8" (0.60 lbs) 205 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Commies 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 traveled through Central America as a journalist and historian and ran into his old comrades there still searching for the revolution. |