West-Bloc dissident
Subtitle: a Cold War memoir
By: William Blum.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Blum, William.; Radicals -- United States -- Biography.; Dissenters -- United States -- Biography.; Political activists -- United States -- Biography.; Peace movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; New Left -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; World politics -- 1945-1989.; Cold War.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Genres: Biography.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-238) and index.