LEADER 04199nam 2200589 450 001 9910796034603321 005 20230807213510.0 010 $a1-61376-359-X 035 $a(CKB)3720000000062052 035 $a(EBL)4533230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001609734 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16320739 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001609734 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14803093 035 $a(PQKB)11511657 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4533230 035 $a(OCoLC)928807943 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42432 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4533230 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11214696 035 $a(EXLCZ)993720000000062052 100 $a20160613h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 15$a"The most dangerous communist in the United States" $ea biography of Herbert Aptheker /$fGary Murrell ; with an afterword by Bettina Aptheker 210 1$aAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (468 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-62534-153-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAn immigrant family's New York -- The Red decade -- "Double V" -- The Aptheker thesis -- Into the fires -- Prelude to McCarthyism -- The time of the toad -- Are you now or have you ever been? -- De facto dissolution of the Party -- Revelations and disputations -- Old Left and new -- The dangerous enemy in our midst -- Mission to Hanoi -- "Let my name forever be enrolled among the traitors" -- Aptheker and Du Bois -- Publishing Du Bois -- Yale historians and the challenge to academic freedom -- The American Institute for Marxist Studies -- Conflict and compromise -- Black power and the freeing of Angela Davis -- An assault on honor -- Party control -- Renewal and endings -- Rebellion in a haunted house -- Comrades of a different sort -- Now it's your turn -- Afterword / by Bettina Aptheker. 330 2 $a"When J. Edgar Hoover declared Herbert Aptheker 'the most dangerous Communist in the United States,' the notorious FBI director misconstrued his true significance. In this first book-length biography of Aptheker (1915-2003), Gary Murrell provides a balanced yet unflinching assessment of the controversial figure who was at once a leading historian of African America, radical political activist, literary executor of W.E.B. Du Bois, and lifelong member of the American Communist Party. Although blacklisted at U.S. universities, Aptheker published dozens of books, including the groundbreaking American Negro Slave Revolts (1943) and the monumental seven-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951-1994). He also edited four volumes of the correspondence and unpublished writings of Du Bois, an achievement that Eric Foner, writing in the New York Times Book Review, called 'a milestone in the coming of age of Afro-American history.' As Murrell shows, Aptheker the historian was inseparable from Aptheker the leading Communist Party intellectual, polemicist, and agitator. During the 1960's, his ability to rouse and inspire both black and white student radicals made him one of the few Old Leftists accepted by the New Left. Aptheker had joined the CPUSA during its heyday in the 1930's, convinced that only through the party's leadership could fascism be defeated and true liberation be achieved: he ended his affiliation five decades later in 1991 after the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aHistorians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$xHistoriography 606 $aCommunists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistoriography. 615 0$aCommunists 676 $a973.07202 700 $aMurrell$b Gary$f1947-$01519504 702 $aAptheker$b Bettina 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796034603321 996 $a"The most dangerous communist in the United States"$93757666 997 $aUNINA