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Alice Kessler-Harris

Alice Kessler-Harris teaches at Columbia University. She writes about the history of wage-work and wage-earning women. Her most recent book is A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman. icon

Was That All There Was to the Left?

By Alice Kessler-Harris

In the wake of Pete Seeger’s death in January, eulogies, memorials, and obituaries routinely mentioned his youthful communist affiliation. The famous folk singer had, like many of his contemporaries ...

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