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Tuck, Jim was born on July 24, 1925 in Geneva. Son of Somerville Pinkney and Beatrice Mitchell (Beck) Fahnestock Tuck.
( Tuck's work is an attempt at the rehabilitation of Karl...)
Tuck's work is an attempt at the rehabilitation of Karl Radek, a sidekick of Lenin's who fell victim to Stalin's vengeance in the 1930s. Though not a full-scale academic biography, it is satisfying and fast-moving without being superficial, and offers an intellectually intriguing thesis. . . . Where others have seen betrayal, Tuck sees Radek the mischief maker. Although Radek implicated many guiltless people and testified to lies, Tuck argues Radek's performance was a master stroke of mischief making, turning the tables against Vyshinsky, showing up and revealing the truth about the show trials themselves. Choice The enigmatic Karl Radek, a victim of the Moscow purge trials, was by turns a Pole, a Jew, a West European social democrat, a Soviet official, a Trotskyist, and a Stalinist. A born iconoclast, he began his career by attacking established political orders and ended it by defending one of the world's most blatant tyrannies. Tuck opens this analytical biography with an account of Radek's atypical early adolescence and then traces the evolution of Radek's political thought from Polish nationalism to patriotic and later international socialism. Radek's six years in Germany were marked by his journalistic success and subsequent disgrace as well as his expulsion from the German and Polish social-democratic parties. His fortunes turned when he joined Lenin in Switzerland, and thereafter he established himself as one of the leading rightists in the Communist movement. His romantic liaison with Larissa Reissner, his allegiance to Trotsky and later to Stalin, and his downfall following the publication of his satire on Stalin are treated in subsequent chapters. The work then presents an account of Radek's trial and banishment to the Gulag and an analysis of Radek's ultimate fate. It concludes with an overall assessment that challenges Arthur Koestler's evaluation of the man.
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(The Liberal Civil War: Fraternity and Fratricide on the L...)
The Liberal Civil War: Fraternity and Fratricide on the Left explores the struggles and controversy of the liberal community during the early years of the Cold War. It follows the issue of collaboration with communists through the anti-Communist revivals of the McCarthy era, the Vietnam War, and the celebrated feud and lawsuit involving Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy. With insights provided by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Leon Schull, and Gus Tyler, The Liberal Civil War details the internal strife and the external action of organized liberals such as labor unions and the Americans for Democratic Action while they struggled with communist paranoia in the United States.
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(Engine of Mischief: An Analytical Biography of Karl Radek...)
Engine of Mischief: An Analytical Biography of Karl Radek (Contributions in Political Science #11) Engine of Mischief: An Analytical Biography of Karl Radek (Contributions in Political Science #11) by Tuck, Jim ( Author ) Hardcover Sep- 1988 Hardcover Sep- 27- 1988
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Tuck, Jim was born on July 24, 1925 in Geneva. Son of Somerville Pinkney and Beatrice Mitchell (Beck) Fahnestock Tuck.
Bachelor in History, Princeton University, 1951.
Regional editor Fodor's Modern Guides, New York City, 1970-1983. Book critic Travelmex, Guadalajara, Mexico, since 1985. Author Insight Straight opinion column Continental News Service, San Diego, California, since 1994.
(Engine of Mischief: An Analytical Biography of Karl Radek...)
(The Liberal Civil War: Fraternity and Fratricide on the L...)
( Tuck's work is an attempt at the rehabilitation of Karl...)
(Book by Tuck, Jim)
(Book by Tuck, Jim)
Member Americans for Democratic Action, since 1981, president West Center Mexico chapter, 1989-1990, 90-91, 95-96. With United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1943-1946, 52-54. Member AsociaciĆ³n de Reporteros e Editores de Turismo.
Married Mary Chase Nicholson, October 13, 1956 (divorced 1960). Children: Katherine Dorsey Marshall. Married Maria Cruz Ruiz, March 14, 1984.