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"""In Reds, Maurice Isserman recognizes the fundamental contradiction at the heart of American Communism: a movement that recruited idealists and professed a commitment to democratic ideals but also provided several hundred recruits for Soviet espionage and voluntarily tied itself to a totalitarian regime hostile to democracy. Isserman's brisk account of the Party's history from 1919 to the early 1990s is the best one-volume book on the most important radical organization of 20th century America.""--Harvey Klehr, Emory University ""How could blind disciples of Joseph Stalin also have been among the most dedicated fighters for unions and against racism in their nation? Maurice Isserman has not just produced the wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party that has ever been written. Reds is also vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the promise and agony of the American left in the twentieth century.--Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party"

"""How could blind disciples of Joseph Stalin also have been among the most dedicated fighters for unions and against racism in their nation? Maurice Isserman has not just produced the wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party that has ever been written. Reds is also vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the promise and agony of the American left in the twentieth century.--Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party"

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Maurice Isserman is the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College. A former Fulbright visiting professor in Moscow, he is the author of award-winning books on the history of the Left and other topics. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He lives in Clinton, New York.

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