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Maurice Isserman
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<h2 id="political-views">Political views</h2> <p>Isserman has criticized the new <a href="/facts/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(2006_organization)/xHSpA70j">Students for a Democratic Society</a> for romanticizing the leadership of the <a href="/facts/Weatherman_(organization)/JWG0zN1a">Weatherman</a> faction of the old SDS.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li>2008: <a href="/facts/National_Outdoor_Book_Award/feTtnc2G">National Outdoor Book Award</a>, <i>Fallen Giants</i> (with Stewart Weaver).</li></ul> <h2 id="works">Works</h2> <h3>Books</h3> <ul><li>Isserman, Maurice. (1982) <i>Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party during the Second World War.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-252-06336-7</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice. (1987). <i>If I Had a Hammer... The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left</i>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-465-03197-8</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice & Healey Dorothy. (1990). <i>Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-19-503819-3 <ul><li>Reprinted as <i>California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party</i> (1993). <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-252-06278-0</li></ul></li> <li>Isserman, Maurice & Bowman, John Stewart. (1992). <i>America at War: The Korean War</i>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0816026883</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice. (1995). <i>Witness to War: Vietnam</i>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0399521621</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice. (1997). <i>Journey to Freedom: The African American Great Migration.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780816034130</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice & Kazin, Michael. (2000). <i>America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-19-516047-9</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice. (2000).<i>The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington</i>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-58648-036-7</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice & Bowman, John. (2005). <i>Exploring North America, 1800-1900</i>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0816052638</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice & Weaver, Stewart. (2008). <i>Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes</i>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0300164206</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice & Bowman, John Stewart. (2010). <i>America at War: World War II.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0816081851</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice; Kenan, William R.; & Bowman, John Stewart. (2010). <i>America at War: Vietnam War.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0816081875</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice & Bowman, John Stewart. (2010). <i>Across America: The Lewis And Clark Expedition.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9781604131925</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice. (2011). <i>On The Hill: A Bicentennial History of Hamilton College 1812–2012.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0615432090</li> <li>Cronkite, Walter & Isserman, Maurice. (2013). <i>Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home</i>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1426210198</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice. (2016). <i>Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering</i>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0393353761</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice. (2019). <i>The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1328871435</li> <li>Isserman, Maurice. (2024). <i>Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism.</i> <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1541620032</li></ul> <h3>Articles</h3> <p>On October 20, 2017, Isserman contributed to "Red Century," a <i>New York Times</i> centenary series about the Bolshevik Revolution, with the article "When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>"How Old is the New SDS?" <i>The Chronicle of Higher Education</i> (October 19, 2007)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li>"The Flower in the Gun Barrel," <i>The Chronicle of Higher Education</i> (October 19, 2007)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>"3 Days of Peace and Music, 40 Years of Memory," <i>The Chronicle of Higher Education</i> (October 19, 2007)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>"When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism," <i>New York Times</i> "Red Century" series (October 20, 2017)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Historians_of_American_Communism/stz46Njb">Historians of American Communism</a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://academics.hamilton.edu/history/home/misserma.html">Maurice Isserman's Homepage at Hamilton College</a></li> <li><a href="https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1196">Interview with Maurice Isserman</a> by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Maurice Isserman - Faculty Directory". Hamilton College. Retrieved 2023-11-19. <a href="https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/maurice-isserman" target="_blank">https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/maurice-isserman</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Isserman Interviewed by Former Secty. of Education Bennett". Hamilton College. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2016. <a href="https://hamilton.edu/news/story/isserman-interviewed-by-former-secty-of-education-bennett" target="_blank">https://hamilton.edu/news/story/isserman-interviewed-by-former-secty-of-education-bennett</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Maurice Isserman, "How Old is the New SDS?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2007, pp. B10–B11. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Isserman, Maurice (20 October 2017). "When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism". New York Times. Retrieved 26 October 2017. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Isserman, Maurice (2 March 2007). "How Old is the New SDS?". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 26 October 2017. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Isserman, Maurice (19 October 2007). "The Flower in the Gun Barrel". The Chronicle of Higher Education: B14 – B15. Retrieved 26 October 2017. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Isserman, Maurice (10 August 2009). "3 Days of Peace and Music, 40 Years of Memory". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 26 October 2017. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Isserman, Maurice (20 October 2017). "When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism". New York Times. Retrieved 26 October 2017. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>