The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal, Ii: Resisting Truman?s Loyalty Oaths and Mccarthy-ite Hysteria Exploring the Socialist Alternative

BOOK TWO: Resisting foreign and domestic policies of the American Century champions (the Military-Industrial Complex) : Communist activist; Director of Nationalities, Henry Wallace?s 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign; research director, the Peace Information Center, chaired by W. E. B. Du Bois organizing the Stockholm Peace Appeal petition campaign; 1951, six-month, twenty-five state tour for the American Peace Crusade; 1952 American Labor Party congressional candidate opposing FDR, Jr.; 1954, committee in defense of court-martialed Korean War Puerto Rican soldiers; 1955, invitation to prepare book on Arbenz government?s democratic reforms, blocked by the CIA?s overthrow of the Guatemalan regime; publication of False Witness, Harvey Matusow?s expos? of Joseph McCarthy?s anti-Communist crusade; 1959, subpoenaed by HUAC seeking to justify the State Department?s denial of passports to left-wing Americans. BOOK THREE: Testing the validity of his dedication to Marxism: Nine months as guest of East European People?s Democracies conducting interviews with Stalinists and anti-Stalinists: prime ministers, Communist functionaries, leaders of trade unions, of decimated Jewish communities, of women?s and youth organizations; individual academicians, writers, journalists, and ordinary citizens.