Braudy - Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left

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FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 2004

Copyright 2003 by Susan Braudy

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Marc Blitzstein: Lyrics from Whats the Matter with Me? Reprinted by courtesy of the estate of Marc Blitzstein. Michael Boudin: Excerpts from the poems Creation, Mother/Daughter, and Thank You Papa by Jean Boudin. Reprinted by permission of Michael Boudin. John Castellucci: Excerpts from The Big Dance by John Castellucci. Copyright 1986 by John Castellucci. Reprinted by permission of the author. Ms. Magazine (August 1976). Reprinted by permission of Ms. Magazine. Jonah Raskin: Excerpts from Out of the Whale by Jonah Raskin. Reprinted by permission of the author.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Braudy, Susan.
Family circle: the Boudins and the aristocracy of the left/Susan Braudy.1st ed.
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Includes bibliographical references.
1. Boudin, Kathy. 2. Boudin, Leonard, 1912 3. Boudin, Jean. 4. Left-wing extremistsUnited StatesBiography. 5. RadicalismUnited States. I. Title.
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In every government on earth there is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption, some degeneracy.

T HOMAS J EFFERSON

Louis Boudin storms out of a socialist convention, Chicago, 1919

Louis Boudin and David Dubinsky at a reception at the Commodore Hotel, circa 1940

Anna Pavitt Boudin, circa 1938

Paul Goodman, circa 1931, at the Parthenon

Leonard B. Boudins picture from City College yearbook, 1932

The Furriers Union strike, 1927

Jean Roisman, West Philadelphia High School yearbook, 1929

Esther Roisman, West Philadelphia High School yearbook, 1926

I. F. Izzy Stone, Haddonfield High School yearbook, 1924

Clifford Odets, Stella Adler, and Luther Adler, circa 1935

Marc Blitzstein and his wife, Eva, Provincetown, 1935

Earl Browder at Morris Leofs, circa 1929

Leon Berkowitz, a color field painter and friend of Jean Boudin

Jean Boudin and her son, Michael, with her friend Alice Carlen and her daughter, Susan, Atlantic City, circa 1942

Victor Rabinowitz, Prospect Park, 1927

Leonard and his partner Victor Rabinowitz at the Hotel Woodstock in Manhattan, 1939

The American Communications Union, Western Union office, Manhattan, 1946

Judith Coplon, Foley Square, Manhattan, 1950

J. Edgar Hoover with Clyde Tolson, Miami Beach, 1939

Judge Learned Hand

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and Roy M. Cohn, 1954

The Leof Christmas Party, Philadelphia, 1949

The Boudin family home at 12 St. Lukes Place

Leonard Boudin and other members of the Lawyers Guild, circa 1952

Rockwell Kent, circa 1945

Maurice Malkins membership card in the American Communist Party

Paul Robeson, Boudin, and Conrad Lynn, 1954

Michael Meeropol, 1959

Kathy Boudin and Pete Seeger, February 13, 1960

Michael Boudins yearbook picture, Harvard, 1961

Kathy Boudins graduating class from Elisabeth Irwin High School, 1961

Diana Das Oughton, Bryn Mawr, 1963

Joni Rabinowitz during her trial in Macon, Georgia, November 1963

Victor Rabinowitz, Fidel Castro, and an interpreter

President Katharine MacBride, Bryn Mawr College, 1961

Norman Thomas, Philadelphia, October 6, 1962

Esther Roisman Stone, Izzy Stone, and Joanne Grant Rabinowitz at a party given by The Nation magazine, circa 1964

Diane Schulder, April 1971

Julian Bond, circa 1960

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, circa 1960

Leonard Boudin and Victor Rabinowitz with Dr. Benjamin Spock outside Federal Court in Boston, 1968

Protesters face police during the Democratic national convention in 1968

Chicagos Haymarket Square, October 6, 1970

Kathy and Bernardine Dohrn, August 19, 1969

Bernardine Dohrn at the Days of Rage demonstration, Chicago, October 11, 1969

A Days of Rage recruiting leaflet code called a shotgun by Kathy Boudin and her fellow organizers, autumn 1969

Nathaniel Burns, a.k.a. Sekou Odinga, under arrest, October 23, 1981

Leonard Boudin and attorney Paul ODwyer, Harrisburg, 1972.

Kathy Boudins wanted poster, 1970

Bernardine Dohrns wanted poster, issued April 24, 1970

Timothy Leary, circa 1967

Angela Davis

Izzy Stone, Harvard, 1971

Dr. Benjamin Spock, Harvard, 1971

Leonard and Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Defense Office, Los Angeles courthouse, April 17, 1973

E. Howard Hunt, convicted Watergate burglar, September 1973

One day after Kathys Weatherman group placed a bomb in a Pentagon bathroom, Saturday, May 20, 1972

The Wilkerson town house, 1970

Taken March 2, 1971, one day after Kathy Boudin and Bernardine Dohrn placed a bomb in a ladies bathroom in the Senate

Joan Baez and Nancy Carlen, 1984

Manhattan Police Headquarters, 240 Centre Street, as pictured on the front page of the New York Times, 1970

Patty Hearst

Kathy Boudin

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall

Joanne Chesimard, a.k.a. Assata Shakur, August 1971

Mutulu Doc Shakur, 1981

Sam Brown, 1981

Walter Gilbert (left), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980

Waverly Chipper Brown, 1979

Sergeant Edward OGrady Jr., 1979

The robbers had made up their minds to kill guards inside the Brinks truck in order to save time, Nanuet Mall, 1981

Kathy Boudin, Nyack Police headquarters, October 21, 1981

David Gilbert, 1981

John Castellucci, Nyack, 1981

Anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, July 1917

Leonard and Jean Boudin, October 21, 1981

Judge Michael Boudin, Harvard Law School, 1998