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- 008 150518s2015 mau b s001 0beng
- 020 __ |a 9781625341549 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 020 __ |a 9781625341532 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |e rda |d DLC
- 050 00 |a CT275.A7935 |b M87 2015
- 082 00 |a 973.07202 |2 23
- 100 1_ |a Murrell, Gary, |d 1947-
- 245 14 |a "The most dangerous communist in the United States" : |b a biography of Herbert Aptheker / |c Gary Murrell.
- 264 _1 |a Amherst : |b University of Massachusetts Press, |c 2015.
- 300 __ |a xviii, 444 pages ; |c 24 cm.
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a 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.
- 520 2_ |a "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 of the controversial figure who was at once a leading historian of African America, radical political activist, literary executor of W.E.B. Du Bois, and lifelong member of the American Communist Party. Although blacklisted at U.S. universities, Aptheker published dozens of books, including the groundbreaking American Negro Slave Revolts (1943) and the monumental seven-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951-1994). He also edited four volumes of the correspondence and unpublished writings of Du Bois, an achievement that Eric Foner, writing in the New York Times Book Review, called 'a milestone in the coming of age of Afro-American history.' As Murrell shows, Aptheker the historian was inseparable from Aptheker the leading Communist Party intellectual, polemicist, and agitator. During the 1960s, his ability to rouse and inspire both black and white student radicals made him one of the few Old Leftists accepted by the New Left. Aptheker had joined the CPUSA during its heyday in the 1930s, convinced that only through the party's leadership could fascism be defeated and true liberation be achieved: he ended his affiliation five decades later in 1991 after the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe"--Provided by publisher.
- 600 10 |a Aptheker, Herbert, |d 1915-2003.
- 600 10 |a Du Bois, W. E. B. |q (William Edward Burghardt), |d 1868-1963 |x Friends and aassociates.
- 610 20 |a Communist Party of the United States of America |v Biography.
- 650 _0 |a Historians |z United States |v Biography.
- 650 _0 |a African Americans |x Historiography.
- 650 _0 |a Communists |z United States |v Biography.
- 650 _0 |a Political activists |z United States |v Biography.
- 650 _0 |a Radicals |z United States |v Biography.
- 650 _0 |a Intellectuals |z United States |v Biography.