His autobiographical chapter in, "Roll Over Beethoven, " on his Popular Front upbringing is a great piece of writing. Next to the book by Michael Denning, "The Cultural Front, " and Daniel Aaron's classic, "Writers on the Left, " (get the Columbia Univ. Press reprint w/ the Alan Wald intro, who, btw, has a new one out.) it's the best stuff out there on the PopFront. Michael Pugliese