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Article: The Liberal Civil War: Fraternity and Fratricide on the Left.(Review)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- March 8, 1999
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The Liberal Civil War: Fraternity and Fratricide on the Left By Jim Tuck University Press of America. 289 pp. $59.00.
Reviewed by Gus Tyler Former national board member, Americans for Democratic Action
THIS IS a fast-pace& informative account of an era when what the author calls "Popular Front [read pro-Communist] liberals" and "Cold War [read anti-Communist] liberals" clashed head-on. If you happen to have been a participant in the confrontation, you will cheer or jeer Tuck's tale, depending on which side you were on. To younger generations, the story of an internecine battle among people of a bygone period who were equally dedicated in their own minds ...