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Rude awakenings : an American historian's encounter with Nazism, Communism, and McCarthyism / Carol Sicherman.
Van Pelt Library E175.5.M376 S53 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sicherman, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- United States.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- College teachers.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Intellectual life.
- National socialism.
- Communism.
- World politics.
- Marks, Harry J. (Harry Julian), 1909-1988.
- Marks, Harry J.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : New Academia Publishers, 2012.
- Summary:
- Drawing on family papers, wide-ranging interviews, FBI files, American and German newspapers, a wide array of published sources, and her own memories, the author traces Harry Marks's German American heritage, his education both formal and informal, his marriage to a fellow Communist from a poor Russian family, his rocky start as an academic, his anguish when confronted by his Communist past, and his ultimate creation of a satisfying career.
- Contents:
- 1. Prologue
- 2. Harry's home, Harry's Harvard
- 3. The young scholar in a new (old) world
- 4. Germany 1933
- 5. The dispersal of the Berlin friends
- 6. Harry and the communists
- 7. The knock on the door: Harry before HUAC
- 8. Harry as academic
- Timeline of events in Germany.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-364) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0983689989
- 9780983689980
- OCLC:
- 778068361
- Publisher Number:
- 99950386585
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