Book Talk: Aaron Leonard's Menace of Our Time on American Communism

Thu Nov 13 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm UTC-05:00

Bobst Library | 2nd Floor | Room 251 | New York

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Book Talk: Aaron Leonard's Menace of Our Time on American Communism
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Celebrate the publication of "Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism" with Tamiment Library and NYU Special Collections
About this Event

Join Aaron Leonard for a book talk celebrating the publication of Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism by Rutgers University Press.

From the publisher: "Beginning at the turn of the century, and ending only with communism’s collapse, the US government and major elements in the wider society undertook an unrelenting effort to suppress and criminalize domestic communism. This book tracks those efforts; from the state laws of the twenties that imprisoned the fledgling communist leadership, the efforts by police and local authorities against communists as they fought for unions, racial equality, and the unemployed, the trials and imprisonment of communist leaders mid-century, the extra-legal efforts of the Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in the sixties, and the ongoing, relentless attention by the FBI afterward. This is a long-overdue book about the most extensive, repressive effort ever undertaken by US authorities against a political organization that, however problematic, was largely operating within the scope of constitutionally mandated freedoms."

Aaron J. Leonard is an author and historian. Among his books are Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists, The Folk Singers & the Bureau, and Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s (Rutgers University Press, 2024).

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Bobst Library | 2nd Floor | Room 251, 70 Washington Square South, New York, United States

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