The Education Of A 20th Century Political Animal, II

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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.