Marxism and Intellectuals in the US: Some Lessons for the Past and Perspectives for the Future

Alan Wald

Tuesday, 15 Oct 1985 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Alan Wald is an American professor of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and writer of 20th-Century American literature who focuses on Communist writers. He is an expert on the American 20th-Century Literary Left.

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