United States Communist History Bibliography 2022 (Annotated)

Abstract

aspects of social experience. Includes substantive discussion of CPUSA.” Adam Beardsworth, Confessional Poetry in the Cold War: The Poetics of Doublespeak ([S.l.]: Springer Nature, 2022). “... explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate... In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a politically benign confessional style. Although confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their work in relation to the political and affective environment of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to express dissent while averting surveillance. For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb’s shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names.” Michael Benson, Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in 1930s America ([S.l.]: Citadel Press, 2022). TOC: Part one. The cloven hoof: Jewish gangsters – Rise of Fascism – Fritz Kuhn – Nazi youth camps – Part two. New York City – Judge Perelman and Meyer Lansky – Murder, Inc. – The list – Yorkville – White plans – Part three. Chicago: Father Coughlin, radio priest – Herb Brin, fighter of fascists – Sparky and Barney – The Germania Club – Part. Four. Newark: Longie Zwillman – Nat Arno – Arno’s army – Schwabbenhalle – Irvington – Union City – Return to the Schwabbenhalle – Part five. Middle America. William Dudley Pelly – Davey the Jew – The Elks – Lodge Beatdown – The Great Lakes cities – Part six. West Coast: The Hollywood war – Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel – Part seven. The Bund’s last gasp: Garden party –Nazi perverts and thieves. Ananyo Bhattacyaya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2022). “Physicist, mathematician [computers, game theory], European exile who quarreled with Oppenheimer over the AMERICAN COMMUNIST HISTORY 127