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

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"When J. Edgar Hoover declared Herbert Aptheker 'the most dangerous Communist in the United States,' the notorious FBI director misconstrued his true significance. In this first book-length biography of Aptheker (1915-2003), Gary Murrell provides a balanced yet unflinching assessment...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murrell, Gary, 1947-
Other Authors: Aptheker, Bettina (writer of afterword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Friends and associates.
Aptheker, Herbert, > 1915-2003.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Friends and aassociates.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963
Aptheker, Herbert, > 1915-2003
Communist Party of the United States of America.
Communist Party of the United States of America
Intellectuals > United States > Biography.
Radicals > United States > Biography.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
Communists > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Historiography.
Historians > United States > Biography.
Intellectuels > États-Unis > Biographies.
Radicaux (Politique) > États-Unis > Biographies.
Activistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Communistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Historiographie.
Historiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > Social History.
Radicals
Political activists
Intellectuals
Historians
Friendship
Communists
African Americans > Historiography
United States
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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