Cold war fugitive : a personal story of the McCarthy years /
by Gil Green.
- First edition
- New York, NY : International Publishers, 1984.
- x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
I. Gathering storm: 1. Grim news -- 2. A flight backward in time -- 3. Soapbox thespians -- 4. Hired and fired -- 5. What J. Edgar Hoover wanted -- 6. Our day in court -- 7. Family reverberations -- 8. To tell the truth -- 9. Visiting the USSR -- 10. Comintern -- 11. Guilty! -- I. Gathering storm II. Fugitive!: 1. Getting away -- 2. The hunt begins -- 3. Sanctuary -- 4. Family is target -- 5. Dry cleaning and cosmetic change -- 6. Women, children first -- 7. Guilt by kinship -- 8. Kidnapped in Mexico -- 9. Fugitives get organized -- 10. Toothless Rufus -- 11. Grim and farcical -- 12. "Informants of known reliability -- 13. Underground at work -- 14. Paul Robeson in Peoria -- 15. Two must die -- 16. Guatemalan hide-out -- 17. Connecticut to High Sierras -- 18. "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" 19. Closing out -- 20. An obsession -- 21. Back to Foley Square -- III. Leavenworth: 1. West Street again -- 2. Enroute to the big house -- 3. Did they really know? -- 4. Quarantine -- 5. Cellhouse A -- 6. The yard -- 7. Pinpricks -- 8. McCarthyism again -- 9. Holiday Cheer -- 10. Crime and punishment -- 11. Bank-robber friend -- 12. Strike! -- 13. A Brahmin and an untouchable -- 14. Battle of broken knee -- 15. Covict labor -- 16. Puerto Rico libre -- 17. Segregation -- 18. Bad news from Terre Haute -- 19. To shorten my time -- 20. Jailhouse intellectuals -- 21. No. 73-335 is released --
"Description: Cold War Fugitive is an inspiring story of how a fugitive from injustice won a moral victory over the immense witch-hunting bureaucracy determined to crush political dissent. It is about the anti-Communist hysteria that gripped the United States after World War II. Criminal Record: Gil Green was one of the eleven U.S. Communist Party leaders sentenced to jail in 1949 for alleged 'conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force and violence.' In other words, for thinking about teaching. When Green and three others jumped bail in 1951, he began an 11-year ordeal: 5 years as an underground Party leader while his family suffered unrelenting FBI harassment, and 6 years in Leavenworth. Since his release in 1962, Green has continued his political work and is currently a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, USA. Caution: The government assault on political activists described in this story took place several decades ago. But the use of anti-Communism as a divisive 'scare' tactic is with us still. Cold War Fugitive draws the lessons from the 1950s while it reveals a record of staunch resistance during those grim yeas." - from back cover.