#90 The Romance of American Communism w/ Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick joins me to talk about her classic book, 'The
Romance of American Communism'. We spoke about her experience of
growing up amongst communists and socialists in the Bronx in the
1930s, how she sought to counter simplistic depictions of the lives
of American communists and how - in spite of its authoritarianism -
the American Communist Party enabled ordinary men and women to feel
connected to a larger human project.