Wrote a good book on Labor and Foreign Policy many years ago. Now a right wing hack, better than David Horowitz, but not a patch on, say Robert Conquest or Alexander Gerschenkron or Merle Fainsod (first rate right wing historians of the USSR). Basically a second rate footnote to the second cold war. devoted to showing that there was an evil commie spy network. Yawn. jks
Coupla' side comments, queries, cites.
The New Republic: TRB: THE HERETIC ... By John B. Judis. When a British journalist asked me recently if I still considered myself part of the left... I first met Ron Radosh in 1974, when he wrote an article for a journal I edit called Socialist Revolution (now Socialist Review)... www.thenewrepublic.com/archive/1996/06/061796/trb061796.html
Chicago public radio interview on recent volume in the Yale Univ. Press series, "Annals of Communism, " on the Spanish Civil War, the Comintern and the International Brigades, co-edited by Radosh. http://www.wbez.org/services/ram/wv/wv_010817_a.ram http://www.yale.edu/annals/Books_Available_main.htm
The books on the Amerasia spy case and the Rosenbergs are solid, as is, "Prophets on the Right: Conservative Critics of Globalism, " from the mid-70's (only place besides a recent issue of The Baffler, I've ever seen a treatment of fascist intellectual, Lawrence Dennis), and the the collection of articles, mostly from the anarcho-pacifist magazine, Liberation, on Cuba, edited by Radosh. Immortal stupidities about, "socialist, " vs, "capitalist, " lobotomies, which he expands on in his recent autobiography. (Passages on Robert Scheer and Kim Il Sung, circa 1970 are hilarious.) The last I'd recommend is, "Towards a New Leviathan, " from the early 70's. Essays on corporate liberalism, mostly from Studies on the Left (such as Martin J. Sklar's classic on Woodrow Wilson) plus, from the Right, M. Rothbard.
The book on the Democratic Party from the 90's. Neo-con bile and bilge.
Justin mentions, Merle Fainsod. I'm under the impression, the rightward Sovietologists seethed that Jerry Hough revised a Fainsod classic, "How the USSR Is Ruled." Still, the can't be that p.o'ed still. I saw that Hough has a letter in the latest National Interest.
Re:Robert Conquest. Last of his, "Reflections on a Ravaged Century," has a blurb from Christopher Hitchens.
Hitchens and Sullivan here on C-SPAN, last week. Entertaining as hell. http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/odrive/ter_wj20020201.rm?start=1:04:19 Better than Altamont! Disaster struck at the Altamont Free Concert on December 6 ... perform, and lead man Jerry Garcia compared the event to a nice afternoon in Hell. ... www.dickinson.edu/departments/colrel/reunions/years/1970.htm Michael Pugliese