Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501124420 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle will find much to admire here. This is both a story of a mother and son's fierce devotion to one another, and a fascinating portrait of a woman's life spent committed to radical ideas and politics, and how this affected her closest ally and confidant." ---Booklist Starred Review
A beautifully written and compelling tale of motherhood, childhood, and politics. Peter Andreas’s Rebel Mother is a beautifully written and compelling tale of motherhood, childhood, and politics. The most captivating book I have read in a long while, Rebel Mother tells the story of Peter’s childhood, focusing in particular on his boyhood years from A beautifully written and compelling tale of motherhood, childhood, and politics. Kimberly A. Clausing Peter Andreas’s Rebel Mother is a beautifully written and compelling tale of motherhood, childhood, and politics. The most captivating book I have read in a long while, Rebel Mother tells the story of Peter’s childhood, focusing in particular on his boyhood years from 4 to 14. Peter follows his mother across continents as she chases her revolutionary ideals of a more perfect society. He lives in slums, his scalp crawls with . to 1A beautifully written and compelling tale of motherhood, childhood, and politics. Kimberly A. Clausing Peter Andreas’s Rebel Mother is a beautifully written and compelling tale of motherhood, childhood, and politics. The most captivating book I have read in a long while, Rebel Mother tells the story of Peter’s childhood, focusing in particular on his boyhood years from 4 to 14. Peter follows his mother across continents as she chases her revolutionary ideals of a more perfect society. He lives in slums, his scalp crawls with . . Peter follows his mother across continents as she chases her revolutionary ideals of a more perfect society. He lives in slums, his scalp crawls with . A must-read book Peter Andreas’s sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes disturbing book, Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution, is a must-read tale of two lives. Once you begin reading, it’s a difficult book to put down. It is especially poignant if you experienced the turbulent 1960s and 1970s and perhaps dabbled in Marxism-Leninism and one of its flavors as an activist.Peter Andreas mined his own childhood memories and the copious di. Cathy Schneider said Travels with my Rebel Mother. When Peter Andreas was 7 he was kidnapped twice by his feminist Marxist mother, first after a judge agreed with his father's opposition to divorce, and second after his father won custody. In travels that make Graham Green's "Travels with my Aunt" seem tame, Andreas, who is rarely in school, is brought first to a commune in Berkley, then hidden in the largest slum of Ecuador, to a socialist farm in Allende's Chile, and then, after the b
From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. “Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle will find much to admire” (Booklist, starred review) in this “thoroughly engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir about a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to Latin America in search of the revolution.Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. When they secretly returned to America they settled down clandestinely in Denver, where his mother changed her name to hide from his father.A “lumin
Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University, where he holds a joint appointment between the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Andreas has published ten books, including Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution and Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America. He has also written for a range of public