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Article: Exiles from a Future Time: the Forging of the Mid-Twentieth Century Left.(Book Review)
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- The Oral History Review
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- June 22, 2003
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EXILES FROM A FUTURE TIME: THE FORGING OF THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY LEFT. By Alan M. Wald. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Hardbound $49.50; softbound $19.95.
Not many reviewers of Alan Wald's widely admired books on American intellectuals have recognized them as a monumental work of oral history. Alan Wald is a political-minded literary scholar whose writings on many subjects, but especially the trajectory of those intellectuals within and around the Trotskyist movement of the United States, have earned praise for their detailed research and their scrupulousness. No one has separated so brilliantly the life-long radicals and progressives ...