Volume 41, Number 1 & 2 · January 13, 1994
The Life of the Party
By Theodore H. Draper
When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929–1941
by Robert Cohen
Oxford University Press, 432 pp., $55.00
New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism
edited by Michael E. Brown, edited by Randy Martin, edited by Frank Rosengarten, edited by George Snedeker
Monthly Review Press, 330 pp., $18.00 (paper)
In 1930, soon after the onset of the Great Depression, I entered the College of the City of New York, better known as City College or CCNY. I was eighteen years old. I felt as if I had left a Brooklyn village—the neighborhood in which I grew up—and gone to the big, outside, threatening world. I knew no one at CCNY or in Manhattan. I felt proud, lonely, and afraid. The first year at CCNY was notoriously hard, because so many were quickly thrown out for not making the grade.
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