Joseph R. Starobin papers, 1932-1979 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Papers of a leftist writer, activist, and university professor, a Communist Party member from 1934 to 1954, and editor and writer for the Communist publications "The New Masses" (1939-1942) and "The Daily Worker" (1942-1954). Included is personal, business, and political correspondence (mostly 1954-1976) with Russell Baker, Zbigniew Brzezinski, David Dellinger, Thomas Eagleton, J. William Fullbright, Robert Kennedy, Doris Lessing, Eugene McCarthy, Edmund Muskie, James Reston, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Eric Sevareid, I.F. Stone, Tad Szulc, Starobin's publishers, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese officials, and others; articles, book drafts, manuscripts, and book reviews by Starobin and others; subject files regarding Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and Starobin's 1969 attempt to arrange peace talks between North Vietnam and the United States; and a file of personal information on Starobin