The Education Of A 20th Century Political Animal, II

RESISTING TRUMAN’S LOYALTY OATHS AND McCARTHY-ITE HYSTERIA EXPLORING THE SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE

by Arthur D. Kahn


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Language : English
Publication Date : 13/06/2007

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 8.25x11
Page Count : 660
ISBN : 9781425987268

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BOOK TWO: Resisting foreign and domestic policies of the American Century champions (the Military-Industrial Complex) : Communist activist;  Director of Nationalities, Henry Wallace’s 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign; research director, the Peace Information Center, chaired by W.E.B. Du Bois organizing the Stockholm Peace Appeal petition campaign; 1951, six-month, twenty-five state tour for the American Peace Crusade; 1952 American Labor Party congressional candidate opposing FDR, Jr.; 1954, committee in defense of court-martialed Korean War Puerto Rican soldiers; 1955, invitation to prepare book on Arbenz government’s democratic reforms, blocked by the CIA’s overthrow of the Guatemalan regime; publication of False Witness, Harvey Matusow’s exposé of Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade; 1959, subpoenaed by HUAC seeking to justify the State Department’s denial of passports to left-wing Americans.

 

BOOK THREE: Testing the validity of his dedication to Marxism: Nine months as guest of East European People’s Democracies conducting interviews with Stalinists and anti-Stalinists: prime ministers, Communist functionaries, leaders of trade unions, of decimated Jewish communities, of women’s and youth organizations; individual academicians, writers, journalists, and ordinary citizens.


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