Author

Publication

2002 - Soft Skull, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101887128727
  • ISBN-139781887128728
  • LibraryThing1125
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003535389
  • OCLC Control Number47900317
and 3 more
  • Better World Books9781887128728
  • Better World BooksP9-AZA-676
  • Open LibraryOL3774955M

Classifications

  • LCCHN90.R3 B56 2002
  • LCCHN90.R3B56 2002

Description

It's a political memoir of writer and activist William Blum and serves as well as a very good history of the 1960s.

Description

"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.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography

Other Editions

  • West-Bloc dissidentSoft Skull2002

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