Helen levitt rhapsodized about the glories of her communist past. She looked at those three men and she cast her lot with the paranoid, homicidal jackass on the end. And why? Because she mistakenly thought that the way to deal with world's injustices was to line up behind a monster. In seven hours of talking with larry seplair. Helen levitt never once comes to terms with the consequences of her beliefs. No remorse, no regrets. Nothing about her heady days at brooklyn college except miss stelcia. Young people who are on the campus who did not get involved, either with the young communists or the young socialists, either
Helen Slote Levitt was on her way to the good life in 1950s Hollywood. Then one day, her name appeared on a list. The story of an ordinary woman whose world was upended by extraordinary times.
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