A NEW BOOK ON MAX EASTMAN

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Came across this interesting article on Croton's Max Eastman (click on the photo to see Max and Crystal Eastman from the Croton Historical Society's past exhibit THE MASSES.) 

It's about a new book--MAX EASTMAN: A LIFE by Christoph Irmscher...

THE NEW REPUBLIC: The Love Affairs of an American Radical 

Max Eastman smuggled Lenin’s last testament out of Russia, and popularized Marxism in the United States. Does his sex life matter? By Daniel Oppenheimer

October 2, 2017--In the winter of 1918, the radical writer and editor Max Eastman wrote to his soon to be ex-wife, Ida Rauh:  I always thought that the avidity with which you could drink up the blood of sacrifice and devotion and still be unsatisfied was truly terrible.… Your conception of what must be given to you seems colossal and hideous, and you rise in my eyes as an unslakable monster of selfishness.

Read the rest here https://newrepublic.com/article/145118/love-affairs-american-radical

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--MAX EASTMAN, CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA, THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF FLORENCE DESHON  http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-mysterious-death-of-actress_28.html

--PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING OF "THE MASSES" CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY EXHIBIT  http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2012/02/photos-from-opening-reception-of-masses.html

--1937 MAX EASTMAN AND JOE STALIN SPAR http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/02/crotons-bohemia-max-eastman-joe-stalin.html