Rude Awakenings
Subtitle: An American Historian's Encounters with Nazism, Communism, and Mccarthyism
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780983689980
Subjects: Historians, biography; National socialism; World politics; United states, intellectual life
Description: 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.