reading lists

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Mon Jul 30 10:34:29 PDT 2001


5. Hal Draper, "The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of the Party': Or What They Did to _What Is To Be Done_," _Historical Materialism_ 4 (Summer 1999), pp. 187-214.

Available online, check the website of the Center for Socialist History in Bezerkeley.

7. William Blum, _Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II_

Blum also has a newer one from Common Courage Press, "Rogue Nation."

8. William Hinton, _Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village_ [The greatest book in English in the 20th century, any genre]

The manuscript of this and William A. Williams, "Contours of American History, " were subpoened by HUAC and/or the SISS.

13. Marvin E. Gettleman, Jane Franklin, Marilyn Young and H. Bruce Franklin, _Vietnam and America: A Documented History_

Gettleman also co-edited a classic 60's anthology, "Vietnam, " pb. by Fawcett Crest Books. And the, "El Salvador Reader, " from Grove Press with, Ron Radosh, Patrick Lacefield and a couple of others. Contains a classic essay from NLR by H. Jung on Salvadorean political history.

17. George Jackson, _Prison Letters_

"Lord, Lord the cut George Jackson down....Lord, Lord they laid him in the ground." Bob Dylan. An attorney connected to the case, Steven Bingham, is a local homeless advocacy advocate. Real softspoken, met him after he resurfaced, in the Rainbow Coalition, in '88. Father was a Old Left editor of a 30's lefty magazine, Common Sense, see the Greenwood Press reprint. Alfred Bingham, I think. "Who Killed George Jackson, " Jo Durden Smith, Alred A. Knopf, 1976, hard to find but, good. Better than, "The Road to Hell: The True Story of George Jackson, Stephen Bingham, and the San Quentin Massacre, " by Paul Liberatore, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. June 1996. Also, see, "The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement, " Stanford Univ. Press, by Eric Cummins.

Michael Pugliese



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