Fireweed: A Political Autobiography

by Gerda Lerner

Book Overview

A beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's founders This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566398894
• ISBN13: 9781566398893
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

A HISTORIAN'S PERSONAL VIEW OF 20TH CENTURY CRISES

Gerda Lerner, one of our most important historians, has written a magnificently honest and perceptive autobiography. She takes us through her youth in Vienna, her imprisonment by the Nazis, her escape to the United States where she married, raised children and built a new life, her years in Hollywood and New York, and her experiences as a radical during the McCarthy period. It is an engrossing, very human story that will touch and enlighten all who read it. We can only hope that Lerner will follow it with a volume that relates the story of her years as a historian who helped to create modern women's history.

Fireweed

An honest, courageous and illuminating account of a radical life. Also a reminder that our current troubles are not unique. Lerner's account of the persecution of members of the Communist Party USA during the 1950's, the abrogation of their civil rights and the threat to their livelihood should be a warning to us today.