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Paul Merlyn Buhle (born September 27, 1944) is a (retired) Senior Lecturer at
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, author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of radicalism in the United States and the
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, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes. He is the authorized biographer of C. L. R. James.


Biography

Buhle was born in
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, on September 27, 1944. His mother was a
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with the maiden name of Pearle Drake. His father, Merlyn Buhle, was a geologist. On December 30, 1963, Paul Buhle married Mari Jo Kupski, who later earned a doctorate in history and co-authored several works with Buhle. Buhle graduated from the
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in 1966, where he had been a spokesperson for the chapter of Students for a Democratic Society's antiwar activities. He received a master's degree from the
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(in 1967) and a Ph.D. from the
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(in 1975). He had been active in the civil rights movement in SDS, and a member for some months of the
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. In 2006–07, he was one of the founding figures of the new Students for a Democratic Society, and more recently a leader of the Movement for a Democratic Society. Buhle was founding editor of the journal ''
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'' (1967–1999), an unofficial organ of Students for a Democratic Society, founder of '' Cultural Correspondence'' (1977–83), a journal of popular culture studies, and founder and director of the Oral History of the American Left archive at
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in 1976. In Rhode Island, he co-founded the Rhode Island Labor History Society, was active in labor history and labor support activities and produced several popular histories of the state's labor movement. He also produced ''Vanishing Rhode Island'', a pictorial history and plea for preservation; and with his students, ''Underground Rhode Island''. He has contributed frequently to the journals and newspapers ''
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''. Buhle is the co-author of four books on the history of the Hollywood Blacklist, and the editor of a series of graphic non-fiction works by American comics artists and writers, among them
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, Sabrina Jones and
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. He is a member of the
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.


Career

Buhle taught at the Cambridge-Godard Graduate School, 1971–73, and lectured at the
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until accepting an appointment as lecturer in History and American Civilization at Brown University in 1995. In 1982–83 he created an oral history collection at the Tamiment Library, New York University, the Oral History of the American Left Collection, with associated research on ethnic radicalism. He has served on the Board of ''
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'', as Contributing Editor to '' Tikkun'', and on the editorial advisory board on ''Radical Americas'' (an on-line publication of MDS). He has also been a sponsor of '' New Politics'' and an adviser on documentary biographies of Howard Zinn, comic artist
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, and
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, and served as historian for the radio series ''Grandma was an Activist'' in the 1980s.


Selected bibliography

Books: * Co-editor, '' Prophet Against Slavery'' (2022) * Co-editor, ''Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia'' (
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, 2019) * Co-editor, ''Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & the New Land'' (2011) * Co-author, with Howard Zinn and
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of '' A People's History of American Empire'' (2008), * Editor, ''Che Guevara, a Graphic Biography'' (2008) * Editor, ''Jews and American Popular Culture'', 3 volumes (2007) * Author, ''Tim Hector, Caribbean Radical'' (2006) * Co-editor, ''Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World'' (2005) * Co-editor, ''The New Left Revisited'' (2004) * Co-author, ''Hide in Plain Sight, the Blacklistees in Film and Television'', 1950–2002 (2003) * Co-author, ''Radical Hollywood'' (2001) * Co-author, ''A Very Dangerous Citizen, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left'' (1999) * Co-editor, ''Encyclopedia of the American Left'' (1990, 1998), with Mari Jo Buhle and Dan Georgakas * Co-author, ''The Tragedy of Empire: A biography of William Appleman Williams'' (1995) * Editor, ''History and the New Left: Madison, Wisconsin, 1950–1970'' (1990) * Author,'' The Artist as Revolutionary'', C. L. R. James (1988) * Author, ''Marxism in the United States'' (1987) Articles: * " E. P. Thompson and his Critics ". ''
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See also

* Mari Jo Buhle * Dan Georgakas


References


External links

* * * Salar Mohandesi
'The Search for a Useable Past: An Interview with Paul Buhle on Radical America'
at ''Viewpoint Magazine'', March 2, 2015
''Power to the panels'', an interview with Paul Buhle


(villagevoice.com) * Josh Jones

''Open Culture'', December 9, 2003 * Michael Schapira, ttp://www.full-stop.net/2014/05/21/interviews/michael-schapira/paul-buhle "Paul Buhle" (interview) ''Full Stop'', May 21, 2014
Paul Buhle Papers
at Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University {{DEFAULTSORT:Buhle, Paul 1944 births Living people People from Champaign, Illinois American book editors 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American social sciences writers Brown University faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Members of Students for a Democratic Society Members of the Democratic Socialists of America Historians from Illinois American male non-fiction writers