Books
The ‘destructive prophets’ astride the field of history: Hitler was only one
March 3, 2022It took him many years to write his 466-page Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet because he made many trips to Germany in order to find and interview people who had known Hitler personally.
Read more‘Border Crossings’: Thirteen stories about covert journeys in service to Portuguese freedom
February 4, 2022These thirteen stories about covert journeys in service to world socialism reveal the risks and rewards of “underground work,” a branch of Party activity that, as the author reminds us, was fundamental to the 20th-century liberation...
Read more‘The Wayland Rudd Collection’: When state power was harnessed to combat racism
February 4, 2022Imagine a world where a powerful global entity, leader of a worldwide bloc of socialist nations, poured its intellectual, artistic, journalistic, and organizational resources into the fight against racism and national chauvinism. Such was the Soviet...
Read more‘The Red Raven’: A quartet of crime fiction novels ends in AIDS-era L.A.
December 27, 2021The literary world has lost an important voice that spoke not just to the LGBTQ community but to any reader who loves a good crime story with a redemptive ending. Steve Johnson’s work survives him.
Read moreNew book gives civil rights leader Alphaeus Hunton long overdue recognition
November 9, 2021People's World interviews Tony Pecinovsky, author and editor of a new book on the largely unknown civil rights leader.
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