The Lost Traveller's Dream
A Memoir
Kovel, Joel
Publisher: Autonomedia
Year Published: 2017
Pages: 376pp Price: 20 ISBN: 978-1-57027-321-6
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX22762
A memoir of Kovel's first 80 years, from his early Jewish upbringing, his academic career, to his embracing of Marxist political economy and commitment to radical ecosocialism.
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Publisher's Description
The influential author of White Racism: A Psychohistory; The Age of Desire; History and Spirit; Red Hunting in the Promised Land; The Enemy of Nature and the controversial Overcoming Zionism, among others, offers a memoir of his first 80 years, from his early Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, his Yale and Columbia medical training, his years as a psychiatrist, Reichian psychoanalyst and subsequent academic career, to his embracing of Marxist political economy and commitment to radical ecosocialism. Highlights include his 1998 Green Party candidacy for the US Senate, his campaign in 2000 for the Green nomination for President of the United States, his work with the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, and his recent Christian spiritual conversion.
