John "Tito" Gerassi was a professor and journalist born in

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on July 12, 1931, and died in

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July 26, 2012. Gerassi wrote a number of books on Latin America, Jean-Paul Sartre, and political affairs. He taught at a variety of colleges and universities in the United States and in France. Most notably, Gerassi was a longtime professor in the Political Science department at

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. He taught at Queens College from 1981 until his passing. He was an activist in the New Left and a leading thinker regarding the significance of Sartre's work. His father was

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, a

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and an anarchist general who defended the Republic from Franco during the

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. His mother was Stephania Avdykovych, Ukrainian and daughter of Klymentyna Avdykovych, famous

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candy factory owner.

Bibliography

*John Gerassi. ''The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans.'' New York: Macmillan, 1963. According to

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, the book is in 883 libraries *John Gerassi. ''The Boys of Boise; Furor, Vice, and Folly in an American City.'' New York: Macmillan, 1966. *John Gerassi. ''North Vietnam: a Documentary.'' Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. *John Gerassi, ''Venceremos! The Speeches and Writings of Ernesto Che Guevarra'', New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. *John Gerassi. ''The Coming of the New International: A Revolutionary Anthology.'' New York: The World Publishing Company, 1971 *John Gerassi. ''Towards Revolution.'' London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971 *John Gerassi. ''The Premature Antifascists: North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 : an Oral History.'' New York: Praeger, 1986. *John Gerassi, ''Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century'', Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. According to WorldCat, the book is in 807 libraries *John Gerassi. ''The Anachronists.'' Cambridge: Black Apollo Press, 2006. *John Gerassi. ''Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates.'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009Review by Robert C Robinson ''Political Studies Review,'' v10 n2 (20120504): 242 *John Gerassi and Tony Monchinski, ''Unrepentant Radical Educator: The Writings of John Gerassi'', Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009.

References

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