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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Murrell, Gary (1947-....)
Titre(s) : "The most dangerous communist in the United States" [Texte imprimé] : a biography of Herbert Aptheker / Gary Murrell ; with an afterword by Bettina Aptheker
Publication : Amherst (Mass.) : University of Massachusetts Press, copyright 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVIII-444 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 365-419. Index
"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and unpublished writings of Du Bois, an achievement that Eric Foner, writing in the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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Aptheker, Bettina (1944-....). Postfacier
Sujet(s) : Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963) -- Amis et relations
Aptheker, Herbert (1915-2003)
Communistes -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990
Historiens -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990
Militantisme -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
320.532 0973 (23e éd.) = Communisme (idéologie politique) - Etats-Unis ; 973.920 92 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1953-2001 - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781625341549 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471202059
Notice n° :
FRBNF47120205
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
