The Typing Pool The first job I ever held was during the waning days of the McCarthy era. Here’s a story about it: Are you now or were you ever a member of the Communist Party? The Ku Klux Klan? The Nazi Party? The National Negro Labor Council or the Ukrainian-American Fraternal Union? The application […]
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When Bullies Rule–and my first political rebellion
A Gallery of Bullies: Joseph McCarthy, his chief counsel Roy Cohn, and Cohn’s client/best friend, Donald Trump When bullies rule, the fear they inspire permeates all levels of society. My first political rebellion was in 1955. I was 11 and attending junior high school in Brooklyn. The Dodgers finally won a World Series against […]