num_pages: 336
description:        Red Diapers is the        first anthology of autobiographical writings by the children of American        communists. These memoirs, short stories, and poems reflect the joys and        perils of growing up in a subculture defined by its opposition to some        of society's most deeply held values. How red diaper babies have come        to terms with their political inheritance is the theme of this compelling        anthology.      Some contributors have fond        memories of family activism; others recall the past with ambivalence or        even pain. The authors range in age from their twenties to their eighties.        Some, such as Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein and sixties activist Bettina        Aptheker, are widely known themselves; some are the children of well-known        American leftists, including Jeff Lawson, son of blacklisted screenwriter        John Howard Lawson, and Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.        In disparate voices, the contributors elaborate on how their parents attempted        to pass on to them the torch of radical politics. 
language: English
title: Red Diapers: Growing Up In The Communist Left
titlecomplete: Red Diapers: Growing Up In The Communist Left
genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, History, Politics
ratings_count: 35
publisher: University of Illinois Press