[lbo-talk] Paul Berman and the contras

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 18:19:43 PST 2006


Nicaragua 1986: notes on the Sandinista revolution. Paul Berman.

Mother Jones v11.(Dec 1986): pp20(10).

A family fight hits the headlines. (editorial). Adam Hochschild.

Mother Jones v11.(Dec 1986): pp6(1).

Exploring Nicaragua's neighborhoods: rocking chairs, roosters & revolution. Paul Berman.

Mother Jones v11.(Feb-March 1986): pp20(9).

He did write in The New Yorker after all on the Contras via reviewing a book on Ben Linder. See the Sept. 23rd, 1996 issue.

For your amusement, Horowitz on Berman, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1119

More recent reflections by Berman on the FSLN focusing on their economic policies and international alignments (poised between the Socialist International and the Eastern bloc intelligence apparati, see the autobiography by FSLN official, Roger Miranda) see the article reprinted in, http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/reviews.asp?isbn=0300103697 Articles include:

* Norman Mailer on "Surplus Values and Mass Media"

* Irving Howe on "New Styles in Leftism"

* Theodore Draper on "Ghosts of Vietnam"

* Sean Wilentz on "Bankruptcy and Zeal"

* Michael Kazin on "A Patriotic Left"

* Dwight MacDonald on "America, America"

* and much more



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