[lbo-talk] Re: birthday

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Sun Feb 20 09:19:08 PST 2005


Doug asked yesterday:

> Today would be the 103rd birthday of F.O. Matthiessen, the gay left

> literary critic who killed himself in despondency over the death of

> his long-time lover and over the McCarthy-era witch-hunts. His gift

> of several thousand dollars (how much was it exactly, John?) was

> crucial to the founding of Monthly Review.

15000 (1949) dollars. The useful NASA GDP deflator <http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflateGDP.html> gives that as the equivalent of $96903 today.

john mage



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