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West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781887128728)
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xIn the 1960s, after four years with IBM and two more with the U.S. State Department, William Blum became a radical dissident. As an insider in two worlds, he is well suited to assess the people, events, and ideology of both the bourgeois and radical cultures. In West-Bloc Dissident, Blum brings unexpected wit and insight to his portrayals of both sides of the ideological fence. He draws unsparing portraits of his movement comrades Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, and others. An anti-war activist, he takes on the CIA, FBI, State Department, and police. Also included are firsthand accounts of everything from the underground press to Salvador Allende s Chile."
Author: William Blum
ISBN-10: 1887128727
ISBN-13: 9781887128728
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2002
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.76d
By William Blum
xWilliam Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. A journalist and author, he became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first "alternative" newspaper in the capital. He was one of the recipients of Project Censored's awards for "exemplary journalism" for writing one of the top ten censored stories of 1998, an article on how, in the 1980s, the United States gave Iraq the material to develop a chemical and biological warfare capability. He died in 2012.
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