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"The most dangerous communist in the United States" : a biography of Herbert Aptheker /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murrell, Gary, 1947-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
Series:In the spirit of W. E. B. Du Bois
Subjects:
Aptheker, Herbert, > 1915-2003.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Friends and associates.
Communist Party of the United States of America > Biography.
Historians > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Historiography.
Communists > United States > Biography.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
Radicals > United States > Biography.
Intellectuals > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • An immigrant family's New York
  • The Red decade
  • "Double V"
  • The Aptheker thesis
  • Into the fires
  • Prelude to McCarthyism
  • The time of the toad
  • Are you now or have you ever been?
  • De facto dissolution of the Party
  • Revelations and disputations
  • Old Left and new
  • The dangerous enemy in our midst
  • Mission to Hanoi
  • "Let my name forever be enrolled among the traitors"
  • Aptheker and Du Bois
  • Publishing Du Bois
  • Yale historians and the challenge to academic freedom
  • The American Institute for Marxist Studies
  • Conflict and compromise
  • Black power and the freeing of Angela Davis
  • An assault on honor
  • Party control
  • Renewal and endings
  • Rebellion in a haunted house
  • Comrades of a different sort
  • Now it's your turn
  • Afterword / by Bettina Aptheker.