TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abt,John J.
AU  - Myerson,Michael
AU  - Burnham,Margaret
TI  - Advocate and activist: memoirs of an American communist lawyer 
SN  - 0252020308 (alk. paper)
AV  - KF 373.A28 A32 1993
U1  - 349.73/092B347.30092B 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Urbana and Chicago
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Abt, John J.
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Communists
N1  - Includes index; 1. May Day child -- 2. In the New Deal maelstrom -- 3. At Hillman's side -- 4. Progressives -- 5. The case of a lifetime -- 6. Victories -- 7. Changes -- 8. Losses
N2  - "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 labor and left-wing political movements in the United States for nearly sixty years." -- from the dust jacket
ER  -