The American Prospect, January 31st, 2000
A HISTORY OF A SOMETIMES AMICABLE, SOMETIMES ANTAGONISTIC, ALWAYS COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP.
In the years immediately after World War II, American liberals split apart over their attitudes toward communism. Those who called themselves progressives rallied around the presidential campaign of Henry Wallace in 1948, despite evidence aplenty that the Communist Party was disproportionately calling Wallace's shots. Others, including the founders of Americans for Democratic Action, fashioned themselves into anti-communists and lined up behind Harry Truman. For all the differences they demonstrated ...
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