The Vast Majority: The Romance of American Communism with Alyssa Battistoni, Sean Estelle and Meagan Day

No book better captures what it's like to be a socialist who has jumped headlong into the fight for a better world than Vivian Gornick's The Romance of American Communism. Thankfully, Verso has reissued it after the book was out of print for decades. Micah Uetricht talks to Alyssa Battistoni, Sean Estelle, and Meagan Day about it. You can buy Romance from Verso here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3110-the-romance-of-american-communism Read Alyssa's review here: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/bad-romance Buy Bigger than Bernie for just $12.95 here: https://jacobinmag.com/store/product/69

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