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Commies

A Journey through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover LeftBy Ronald RadoshNarrated by Yuri Rasovsky
Length8h 42m

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Ronald Radosh’s earliest memory is of being trundled off to a May Day demonstration by his Communist parents. Radosh grew up in the parallel universe of American Communism, and when he entered the University of Wisconsin in the late 1950s, he became a founding father of the New Left and emerged as one of its leaders in the sixties. 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. In the early eighties, Radosh wrote the groundbreaking work The Rosenberg File, intending to prove that the martyrs were innocent—but after examining government files, he became convinced of the Rosenbergs’ guilt. As the publication of his book provoked attacks and blacklisting from his former friends in the Left, Radosh began to question his past allegiances.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 3.9 (176)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenrePolitics and Government, History
Length8 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byYuri Rasovsky
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 1, 2008
LanguageEnglish

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