The romance of American Communism
By: Vivian Gornick.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Communism -- United States
First sentence: Before I knew I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.
Description: "For those Americans who chose to become Communists, their discovery of and commitment to the Party was the most stirring, consuming event of their lives." The author tells of the heyday period of the Party (1920-1960)`through the voices of 47 people who explain their reasons for joining, remaining and leaving the Party.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; title: Contents
pagenum: x; label: One
title: To Begin With
pagenum: 3; label: Two
title: They Came form Everywhere: All Kinds of Beginnings
pagenum: 28; title: The Jewish Marxists
pagenum: 30; title: The Dos Passos Immigrants
pagenum: 59; title: The American Populists
pagenum: 66; title: Those of the Middle Kingdom
pagenum: 85; label: Three
title: Living it out:  From Vision to Dogma and Halfway Back
pagenum: 107; title: The ordinariness of Daily Activity and the Revolution Around the Corner
pagenum: 109; title: The Wholeness of the CP World
pagenum: 112; title: The Party Unionist
pagenum: 125; title: Ambivalence: Beneath the "Wholeness" Disintegrating Conflict
pagenum: 130; title: Going into Industry
pagenum: 145; title: The Underground
pagenum: 158; title: What We Did to Each Other
pagenum: 169; title: The Lure of the Disciplined Revolutionary Party
pagenum: 182; label: Four
title: They Went Back Into Everywhere: Varieties of Aftermath
pagenum: 190; title: Politics Without the Party Is Unthinkable
pagenum: 193; title: The Anti-Communist Communist
pagenum: 203; title: The Wounds of the Past
pagenum: 214; title: "I Lost More Than I Got"
pagenum: 219; title: "Communism Was Part of the Journey"
pagenum: 227; title: "It Was the Best Life a Man Could Have Had"
pagenum: 234; title: The Political Emotion Embodied
pagenum: 242; title: "I'll Tell You What a Communist Is"
pagenum: 248; label: Five
title: To End With
pagenum: 256