Archive for the Tag 'Gladys Scales'

The “S” Word & A Red Family

on 14 Apr 2009

There is an extraordinary Alice in Wonderland quality to the current economic crisis. At a time when capitalism is revealing its greatest limitations, the biggest bugaboo still is the “S” word – socialism. Auto execs fly their private jets to Washington to beg for public money after decades of incompetence. AIG rewards those of its […]

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A RED FAMILY, OBAMA, AND THE CONTINUING AMERICAN REVOLUTION

on 20 Jan 2009

Like so many others who grew up in the Civil Rights movement, I am amazed to see the triumph of hope and the desire for change trump racism.  As a political being, I find myself believing once more in the possibility of a fair America. As a writer, I am a bit taken aback that […]

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A Red Family

on 08 Jun 2007

A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales by Mickey Friedman.  The University of Illinois Press. 2009. This is the story of a Red family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales.  Red in the older sense of the word.  Because, before there were red and blue states, there were the Reds, the Communists. Junius Scales was […]

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