Maurice Isserman Research Files for . The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington Bulk, 1970-1995 1940-1995

Kristol, Irving, 1920-2009

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Irving Kristol (born January 22, 1920, Brooklyn, New York-Died September 18, 2009, Falls Church, Virginia) was a journalist known as the "godfather of neoconservatism." Kristol played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half of the twentieth century....

McReynolds, David.

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Howe, Irving.

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Jacobson, Julius

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Schwartz, Joseph

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Trilling, Diana

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Writer Diana Trilling spent much of her life carving a niche out for herself that would separate her from her husband, critic and author, Lionel Trilling. Although she was fiercely devoted to their marriage, she maintained her own identity and had a successful career as a literary critic, an author, and a cultural commentator. She was not afraid to shy away from controversy especially if, in her view, her political opinions were being distorted or misunderstood by others. (The name ...

Dorsen, Norman

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Professor Dorsen graduated from Columbia University in 1950 and the Harvard Law School in 1953, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review (1951-1953). Then, as First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he served as an Assistant to the General Counsel of Secretary of the Army (1953-1955); in this capacity he assisted Army attorney Joseph Welch throughout the 1954 Army McCarthy Hearings. Following a Fulbright grant to the London School of Economics (1955 1956), he served as a law cler...

Fund for the Republic

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The Fund for the Republic originated with a 15 million-dollar grant from the Ford Foundation, and its primary mission at the outset was to award grants and fellowships to individuals and organizations such as the American Friends Service Committee and the Southern Region Conference. The Fund also sponsored projects on such topics as academic freedom, American traditions, blacklisting, censorship, civil liberties, due process, educational activities, extremist groups, foreign policy,...

Social Democrats, USA

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Social Democrats, USA, is a descendant organization of the Socialist Pary of America. From the guide to the Social Democrats, USA Records, 1937-1994, (Bulk 1970-1994), (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) ...

Rosenberg, Bernard

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Fleischman, Harry

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Harry Fleischman (1914- ) has been a lifelong labor and socialist activist since he joined the Washington Heights "circle" of the Young People's Socialist League as a teenager in the 1930s. For the Socialist Party, he served as National Secretary of the Red Falcons (1936); regional director of the Socialist Party of Indiana-Illinois (1939-42); national secretary of the Socialist Party in New York City (1942-50); and campaign manager for Norman Thomas' presidential campaigns in 1944 and 1948. In ...

Democratic Socialists of America

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Ann Arbor local of the Democratic Socialists of America. From the description of Democratic Socialists of America/Ann Arbor records, 1980-1986. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 83950562 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was founded in 1973 as the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and led by Michael Harrington (1928-1989), best known as the author of The Other America (1962) and became the DSA upon its merger with the New American Movement (a ...

League for Industrial Democracy.

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The League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was founded in 1905 as the Intercollegiate Socialist Society by democratic socialist intellectuals to bring "education for the new social order" to the nation's campuses, but its name was changed in 1920 to broaden appeal and better reflect aims of social ownership and democratic control of industry. In 1922 Norman Thomas (1884-1968; later the Socialist Party's head and presidential candidate) joined Harry W. Laidler as Co-Director. LID campaigned throug...

Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008

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Epithet: jr of the National Review British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000169 William F. Buckley, Jr. was born in 1925 and graduated from Yale University in 1950. In 1955 he founded the magazine The National Review. He also wrote a nationally syndicated column and hosted the weekly television show Firing Line from 1966 through 1999. In 1965 Buckley ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative Party candidate for...

Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989?

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Michael Harrington (1928-1989), a U.S. socialist writer and political leader, best known as the author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), and as the founder and leader of Democratic Socialists of America, the U.S. affiliate to the Socialist International, was born in St. Louis, received a Jesuit secondary education, graduated from Holy Cross College in 1947 and, after a brief interval at Yale Law School, received a MA degree in English from the University of ...

Noṿiḳ, P., 1891-

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Sholem Asch, Yiddish writer. Paul Novick, editor of the Morgen frayhayt (Morning Freedom), a Communist Party newspaper in New York. From the description of Paul Novick papers relating to Sholem Asch, 1943-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702135837 ...

Draper, Hal

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Haskell, Gordon, 1946-

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Isserman, Maurice

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Maurice Isserman is an historian and author of The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington (2000), and of Which Side Are You On?: The American Communist Party during the Second World War, and If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left (1993). Isserman is also a professor of history at Hamilton College (New York). Michael Harrington (1928-1989), is best known as the author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), an...

Denitch, Bogdan Denis

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Rawick, George P. 1929-

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Glotzer, Albert, 1908-1999

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American Trotskyist and subsequently social democratic leader; official recorder, Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, Mexico City, 1937. From the description of Albert Glotzer papers, 1919-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872385 Biographical/Historical Note 1908 Born, Ivanik, Russia (now Belarus) ...

Meyerson, Harold

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Schiffrin, Andre

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