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Review 'The best book ever written on the inner life of socialists.'�Corey Robin, New York Magazine�When first published in the 1970s, Vivian Gornick�s book helped to launch her distinguished career as a writer and humanized, explained and, yes, romanticized, a generation of American radicals � Thanks to the dysfunctionality of American capitalism, socialism has reentered the American political vocabulary. Gornick introduces us to a slice of history we need to know.� �Eric Foner, author of Battles for Freedom �Gornick�s language is so fresh and so blunt; it�s a quintessentially American voice, and a beautiful one.��Dwight Garner, New York Times�I first read The Romance of American Communism in the early eighties, and it has been for many years the book I would rescue if my house was burning down. I based the the narrator of my first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, on the character of �Diane Michaels,� a vain shallow woman for whom communism had made her better than she was��it could all have been so much worse.� Vivian Gornick explores the passion of ideas rather than the ideas themselves, how they make us human. This book has languished out of print for far too long.��Linda Grant, author of A Stranger City �A profound guide to the ecstasy and despair of living a life structured by political commitment. These accounts of ordinary Communists will make you ache for such a coherent and purposeful world, even as Gornick shows with enormous sensitivity how it all fell apart. In our new era of political intensity, everyone should have this subtle and exquisite book on hand.��Sarah Leonard Read more About the Author Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Growing up in the Bronx amongst communists and socialists, Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments (1987) and The Odd Woman and the City (2015) and the classic text on writing, The Situation and the Story. Read more
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