Title:
The romance of American Communism / Vivian Gornick.
Main Entry:
Gornick, Vivian.
Publisher:
Basic Books,
Publication Date:
c1977.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
0465071104
9780465071104
0465071112 (pbk.)
9780465071111 (pbk.)
0465071004
9780465071005
0465071007
Subject:
Communism -- United States.
Contents:
To begin with -- They came from everywhere : all kinds of beginnings: The Jewish Marxists : Sarah Gordon, Ben Saltzman, Selma Gardinsky, Joe Preisen, Belle Rothman, Paul Levinson. The Dos Passos immigrants : Dick Nikowsski. The American populists : Will Barnes, Blossom Sheed, Jim Holbrook. Those of the middle kingdon : Mason Goode, Arthur Chessler, Marian Moran, Diana Michaels -- Living it out : from vision to dogma and halfway back: The ordinariness of daily activity and the revolution around the corner : Sarah Gordon, Selma Gardinsky, Blossom Sheed. The wholeness of the CP world : Dina Shapiro, Arthur Chessler, Norma Raymond, Eric Lanzetti. The party unionist : Maggie McConnell. Ambivalence : beneath the "wholeness" disintegrating conflict : Esther Allen, Mason Goode, Lou Goldstein. Going into industry: Karl Millens, Maurey Sachman. The underground : Nettie Posin, Hugh Armstrong, Bill Chaikin. What we did to each other : Sam Russell, Sophie Chessler, Tim Kelley. The lure of the disciplined revolutionary party : Larry Dougherty, Ricardo Garcia -- The went back into everywhere : varieties of aftermath: Politics without the party is unthinkable : Jerome Rindzer, Grace Lange, David Ross. The anti-communist communist : Max Bitterman. The wounds of the past : Arnold and Bea Richman -- "I lost more than I got" : Morris Silverman, Carl Peters, Dave Abetta. "Communism was part of the journey" : Diane Vinson. "It was the best life a man could have had!" : Anthony Ehrenpreis. The political emotion embodied : Boris Edel. "I'll tell you what a communist is" : Eric Lanzetti -- To end with.
Related Records:
Online version: Gornick, Vivian. Romance of American Communism. New York : Basic Books, c1977 (OCoLC)652118540
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