Legacy of a False Promise: A Conversation with Author Margaret Fuchs Singer, Howard Brick & Nancy Blieden
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Presented by The Author's Forum
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
7:30 PM
Library Gallery, Room 100
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
913 S. University
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Free and open to the public
Book signing & sale following the event couresy of Common Language Bookstore
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The Author's Forum is collaboration between the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, University Library, Great Lakes Literary Arts Center, and the Ann Arbor Book Festival. Additional sponsorship for this event provided by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought, and the University of Michigan Department of History.
Contact Information: 734.764.0400
Author Margaret Fuchs Singer discusses the historical and psychological impact of the McCarthy years with U-M history professor Howard Brick and Wayne State psychiatry professor Nancy Blieden.
At age thirteen, a young girl learns that her parents had been Communists during the 1930s and '40s while working for the U.S. government. Her father is called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and must decide how he will testify. His decision breaks his spirit and changes his family's life forever. Legacy of a False Promise: A Daughter's Reckoning is the compelling true story of this teenage girl caught up in the throes of the McCarthy era.
Retired from a 35-year career in special education, Margaret Fuchs Singer is the daughter of former communists Herbert and Frances Rice Fuchs. She is the author of Legacy of A False Promise: A Daughter's Reckoning.
You can learn more about Margaret Fuchs Singer at http://www.margaretfsinger.com/.
Howard Brick is Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought.
You can learn more about Howard Brick at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/facstaff/facultydetail.asp?ID=281.
Nancy Blieden, PhD, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, is Adjunct Asst. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at Wayne State University.
