Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff

Synopsis

Sam Dolgoff (1902-1990) Was A House Painter By Trade And Member Of The Iww From The Early 1920s Until His Death. Sam, Along With His Wife Esther, Was At The Center Of American Anarchism For Seventy Years, Bridging The Movement's Generations, Providing Continuity Between Past And Present, And Creating Some Of The Most Vital Books And Journals From The Great Depression Through Wwii, The Civil Rights Era, And Into The Last Decade Of The Century. This Instant Classic Of Radical History, Written With Passion And Humor By His Son, Conjures Images Of A Lost New York City, The Faded Power Of Immigrant And Working-class Neighborhoods, And The Blurred Lines Dividing Proletarian And Intellectual Culture. Introduction / Andrew Cornell -- Prologue: A Long Walk, 1944 -- Durruti And Me -- Sam's Personality- Early Life- Other Things -- Sam Becomes A Socialist -- Sam Is Bounced From The Socialist Party -- An Interlude: I Take Sam To See Reds -- Back To Road To Freedom -- With The Wobblies -- On The Bum -- Chicago -- The Clap Doctor From Chi -- The Russian Anarchists- Maximoff -- Maximoff Educates Sam -- The Fate Of The Guillotine -- Sam Falls In Love -- Mother -- Childhood -- Other Things -- In The House Of Father Abraham -- Childhood Memories With Mother And Sam -- The Thirties -- Colonies -- Sam And Emma -- With Tresca And The Italians -- Vanguard -- Serious Matters -- Sam's Views On The War -- Spain -- The Commies -- Russell (part One) -- Lincoln Brigades- Media -- Spanish Epilogue -- Family Stuff- Oscar- Red -- Ben -- Ben On Trial -- Inside Golgotha -- Ben As We Knew Him -- Herbert Mahler, Cockroach Businessman -- The Drinking Life -- Chris Takes Me To The Fights -- I Start To Grow Up -- The Death Of The Mtw -- Bill Roth, Monarch Of The Living Room -- It Ain't The Work, It's The Labor Involved -- The Footloose Bohemian Girl -- Tough Times In The Fifties -- A Cynical Guy -- The Sia Hall -- The Libertarian League -- Russell Blackwell (revisited) -- Dick Ellington -- David Van Ronk -- The Libertarian League Forums -- Views And Comments -- Sam On Civil Rights -- Martin Luther King And The Princess -- New States -- Israel -- Cuba -- Growing Up -- The Student Sixties -- Young Friends -- A Nasty Fight -- Bakunin -- My Problem With Bakunin -- Murray Bookchin -- Paul -- The Grandchildren -- Good Times -- Citizen Sam -- Diego Camacho -- Mother And Sam Come Home -- Late Work -- Sam Goes Hollywood -- Mother's Last Days -- Sam's End. Anatole Dolgoff ; Introduction By Andrew Cornell. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 387-391).