THE ROMANCE OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM

Writer and critic Vivian Gornicks long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American lifeBefo re I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. So begins Vivian Gornicks exploration of ho w the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project.Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new in troduction by...[Read more]