West-Bloc dissident
a Cold War memoir
by William Blum
"In the 1960s, after four years with IBM and two more with the U.S. State Department, William Blum became a radical dissident. As an insider in two worlds, he is well suited to assess the people, events, and ideology of both the bourgeois and radical cultures. In West-Bloc Dissident, Blum brings unexpected wit and insight to his portrayals of both sides of the ideological fence. He draws unsparing portraits of his movement comrades Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, and others.
An anti-war activist, he takes on the CIA, FBI, State Department, and police. Also included are firsthand accounts of everything from the underground press to Salvador Allende's Chile."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Cold War, Counterculture, Dissenters, History, New Left, Peace movements, Political activists, Politics and government, Radicals, World politics, anti-Vietnam movement, anti-war movement, the 1960s, New left, World politics, 1945-, Cold war, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989People
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West-Bloc dissident: a Cold War memoir
2002, Soft Skull
in English
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1887128727 9781887128728
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West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Political Memoir
October 10, 2001, Soft Skull Press
Paperback
in English
- 1 edition
1887128727 9781887128728
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-238) and index.
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It's a political memoir of writer and activist William Blum and serves as well as a very good history of the 1960s.
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