Papers, 1932-1979.

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1932-1979.

Papers of a leftist writer, activist, and university professor, a Communist Party member from 1934 to 1954, and editor and writer for the Communist publications "The New Masses" (1939-1942) and "The Daily Worker" (1942-1954). Included is personal, business, and political correspondence (mostly 1954-1976) with Russell Baker, Zbigniew Brzezinski, David Dellinger, Thomas Eagleton, J. William Fullbright, Robert Kennedy, Doris Lessing, Eugene McCarthy, Edmund Muskie, James Reston, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Eric Sevareid, I.F. Stone, Tad Szulc, Starobin's publishers, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese officials, and others; articles, book drafts, manuscripts, and book reviews by Starobin and others; subject files regarding Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and Starobin's 1969 attempt to arrange peace talks between North Vietnam and the United States; and a file of personal information on Starobin.

5.4 c.f. (14 archives boxes); plus.additions of 0.2 c.f.

eng,

vie,

Related Entities

There are 15 Entities related to this resource.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), Jr., 1917-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hz2410 (person)

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism. In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 an...

Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc417s (person)

Governor of Maine, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of state, of Waterville, Me.; d. 1996. From the description of Christmas card, 1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70926049 United States senator from Maine. From the description of Address : at water symposium, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1966 June 15. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33841361 Politician, governor of Maine, U.S. senator from Maine, and U.S. Secretary of State; d....

Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cz35ht (person)

Doris Lessing (b. October 22, 1919, Iran-d. November 17, 2013, London) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature....

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xm94h6 (person)

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski was born on March 28, 1928 in Warsaw, Poland. His father was Polish consul-general in Montreal during World War II. After the communists seized control of the Polish government in 1945, his family remained in Canada. He received a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University in 1949 and 1950, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953. He remained at Harvard, first as a research fellow at the Russian Research Center, 1953 to 1956, and then as assistant professor of governm...

McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6154gks (person)

Educator, U.S. representative from Minnesota, U.S. senator from Minnesota, and author. From the description of Papers of Eugene J. McCarthy, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064286 Eugene J. McCarthy served as a U.S. Congress member (Democratic Farmer-Labor) from Minnesota's fourth district (1949-1958) and as U.S. senator from Minnesota (1959-1970). He sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1968 against Lyndon B....

Eagleton, Thomas F., 1929-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rj62c6 (person)

Senator from Missouri. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Edward Wagenknecht, [no year] Aug. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863912 ...

Reston, James, 1909-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k28kc (person)

James Barrett Reston, along with such writers as Eric Sevareid, Joseph Alsop, and Walter Lippmann, had a tremendous influence on shaping twentieth-century American journalism. After graduating from the University of Illinois, Reston worked in publicity and reporting before taking a job with the Associated Press. In 1937, he went to London to cover news and sports for the A. P. During this assignment, Reston met Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times . Soon after their encoun...

Szulc, Tadeusz

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j17nw9 (person)

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf7ngv (person)

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...

Sevareid, Eric, 1912-1992

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b4tmz (person)

Arnold Eric Sevareid (b. November 26, 1912-d. July 9, 1992) was born in Velva, North Dakota. He was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977....

Starobin, Joseph R. (Joseph Robert), 1913-1976

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gq6w9g (person)

Biography Joseph R. Starobin (1913-1976) and his son, Robert S. Starobin (1939-1971) each played significant roles in the radical movements of their times, the so-called Old Left and New Left. Joseph Starobin, born of a White Russian Jewish family in New York City, grew up among Socialists and became radicalized during the Great Depression. He was the foreign editor of the Daily Worker from 1945-1954, In 1951, on the Communist Par...

Baker, Russell, 1925-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w673700p (person)

Award winning journalist, humorist, and author Russell Baker (1925 - ), has written numerous books, was the author of the nationally syndicated column "Observer" (1962-88), and served as the second host of public television's Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 until 2004. From the description of Russell Baker collection, 1948-2000 bulk 1960-1996. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 495569482 ...

Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j105bp (person)

Stone, I. F(Isidor F.), 1907-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6np55mn (person)

Fullbright, J. William (James William), 1905-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mm3zbt (person)