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Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer
by Abt, John J., with Myerson, Michael
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in good dust jacket. Some edge discoloration to DJ and to book edges. Ink notation on rep.
- ISBN 10
- 0252020308
- ISBN 13
- 9780252020308
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About This Item
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Some edge discoloration to DJ and to book edges. Ink notation on rep.. xviii, 3411, [1]p. Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Margaret Burnham. Best known as the longtime chief counsel to the Communist Party of the United States, John Abt also was one of Angela Davis's first attorneys and the man Lee Harvey Oswald wanted to defend him after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In Advocate and Activist, John Abt and Michael Myerson provide a detailed account of a life that touched and was touched by the labor and left-wing political movements in the United States for nearly sixty years. Abt went to Washington, D.C., in the early 1930s to join the New Deal. He worked in a succession of government posts and for the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee. He was Sidney Hillman's counsel in the labor movement and a top aide to Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential campaign. At the height of McCarthyism he became the Communist party's chief counsel. Defending the party in the Smith Act and McCarran Act prosecutions, he succeeded at dismantling the acts piece by piece, establishing precedents and making sure that being a Communist was not illegal.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64280
- Title
- Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer
- Author
- Abt, John J., with Myerson, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in good dust jacket. Some edge discoloration to DJ and to book edges. Ink notation on rep.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0252020308
- ISBN 13
- 9780252020308
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana, IL
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Marion Abt, Calvin Baldwin, Vita Barsky, Earl Browder, Un-American Activities, Lee Pressman, Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis, Jessica Smith, Subversive Activities COntrol, Henry A. Wallace, Henry Winston
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