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Advocate and Activist: MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN COMMUNIST LAWYER

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Best known as the longtime chief counsel to the Communist Party of the United States, John Abt also was one of Angela Davis's first attorneys and the man Lee Harvey Oswald wanted to defend him after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In Advocate and Activist, John Abt and Michael Myerson provide a detailed account of a life that touched and was touched by the ...more
Hardcover, 344 pages
Published August 1st 1993 by University of Illinois Press
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