From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist - Softcover

"A learning document that makes for a fascinating read." --Counterpunch.org
"[These] memories are sharp and clear...compelling as maps for those who demand a better world." --Dr. Juan Gomez-Quinones, author, Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990

"Information about the Black Power struggle and black nationalist organizations that is available nowhere else." --Elemental Magazine
"Avakian's new memoir leaves a breathtaking impression...[He] sounds a high, sustained cry for complete social transformation." --San Francisco Chronicle

This moving memoir contains three interwoven stories. The first tells of a white middle-class kid growing up in 1950s America who goes to an integrated high school and has his world turned around; the second of a young man who overcomes a near-fatal disease and jumps with both feet into the heady swirl of Berkeley in the 1960s; and the third of a radical activist who matures into a tempered revolutionary communist leader. Original.