Vivian Gornick

When communism inspired Americans

Vivian Gornick / May 8, 2017 / 5 min readSyndicated

Hundreds of thousands of Americans were Communists at one time or another during those 40 years. Many of these people endured social isolation, financial and professional ruin, and even imprisonment. They were two generations of Americans whose lives were formed by political history as were no other American lives save those of the original Revolutionists.

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