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Maurice Isserman
Maurice Isserman (born March 12, 1951) is James L. Ferguson Professor of History at Hamilton College and an important contributor to the "new history of American communism," which reinterpreted the role of the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s. His books have also traced the emergence of the New Left and the decade of the 1960s. He co-authored a biography of Dorothy Healey and wrote an award-winning biography of American socialist leader Michael Harrington. Recently he refocused his work on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas and the United States. He has contributed editorials and book reviews to ''The New York Times'', ''The Boston Globe'', ''Newsday'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Nation'', and ''The American Alpine Review''.
==Early life==
Isserman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1951, into a family that would have significant influence on his political and intellectual future. His mother, born Flora Huffman, was the daughter and sister of Quaker ministers and graduated from a Quaker college. She was a social worker for the state of Connecticut. His father, Jacob (Jack) Isserman, was born in Antwerp and came with his family to the US in 1906 at age four, and was later naturalized as a US citizen. He was a machinist who worked at the Pratt and Whitney aircraft factory in East Hartford, Connecticut.
The Issermans were Jewish; Maurice’s uncle Ferdinand Isserman was a prominent rabbi in St. Louis, Missouri. Another uncle, lawyer Abraham Isserman, was a founding member of the National Lawyers Guild, an active member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and one of the lawyers in the first Smith Act trial in 1949, during which he was cited for contempt, imprisoned afterwards, and disbarred.〔Isserman, ''Which Side Were You On?'', p. xiv.〕 He also argued for the plaintiff in ''Dennis v. United States''. After his father's death in 1963, Maurice became close to his uncle Abraham, who took him to one of his first demonstrations, the 1967 March on the Pentagon.〔See Maurice Isserman, "The Flower and the Gun," ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', Oct. 19, 2007, pp. B14–B15.〕
Isserman's parents had divorced in 1959, and his mother remarried Walter Snow, a local newspaper reporter, who had been a Communist in the 1930s, and a minor figure on the literary Left (John Reed Club member, and editor of ''The Anvil'', a midwestern radical literary magazine). They lived in the small town of Coventry, Connecticut, and Isserman graduated from Coventry High School in 1968.
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