There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
-- Ken Follett
   
Ken Follett   Name:
Ken Follett
Type:
Author
Nationality:
Welsh
Birth:
June 5, 1949
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