Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left

Version: Unabridged
Author: Ronald Radosh
Narrator: Yuri Rasovsky
Genres: United States, Political Science
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published In: February 2013
Length: 1 hour
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Overview

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. When he entered the University of Wisconsin in the late 1950s, he became a founding father of the New Left and was on the center stage during 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 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.

Author Details

Author Details

Radosh, Ronald

Allis Radosh has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the City University of New York, and served as a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ronald Radosh, professor emeritus of history at the City University of New York and adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including "The Rosenberg File". He has written for "The New Republic", "National Review", "The New York Times", the "Los Angeles Times", and many other publications. This is the second book they have written together. They live in Martinsburg, West Virginia.