Commies is a brilliant memoir of growing up in the culture of radicalism. But it also about the hard decisions faced by those professing a radical faith. For Radosh himself, the crisis came when he concluded in his authoritative book on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that the couple (in whose behalf he had demonstrated as a boy) had indeed been guilty of spying. Attacked as a traitor, Radosh began to question his political commitments. His disillusionment climaxed in the 1980s when he traveled through Central America as a journalist and historian and ran into his old comrades there still searching for the revolution.
- ISBN10 1594033439
- ISBN13 9781594033438
- Publish Date 1 January 2010 (first published 21 June 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 January 2021
- Imprint Encounter Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 205
- Language English