red diaper baby Concepts

The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice

by Fredrik Deboer · 3 Aug 2020 · 236pp · 77,546 words

home, socialism was family. My parents were radicals, unapologetic leftists who infused our household with radical ideals and revolutionary symbols. My father had been a red diaper baby. His father, who died long before I was born, had been an avowed socialist professor and an explicit target of the Broyles Bills, a set

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

by Steve Silberman · 24 Aug 2015 · 786pp · 195,810 words

was confused that his fiancée was upset; hadn’t he come back in time as he said he would? Like McCarthy, Felsenstein was also a Red Diaper Baby: his parents were members of the Communist party in the 1950s, and his father, Jacob, was a commercial artist who always made sure that there

Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations With Today's Top Comedy Writers

by Mike Sacks · 23 Jun 2014

that affected me greatly. A lot of my friends had parents who had experienced the excitement and the prosperity of the fifties, whether they were “red-diaper babies” or “Eisenhower babies.” My parents didn’t seem to know anything of that; I might as well have been raised during the Depression. My parents

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff · 1 Jan 2005 · 394pp · 108,215 words

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decided it needed to raise its profile and invite the outside world to see what they had done. Opening the door would change everything. 3| RED-DIAPER BABY Bill Pitts was a loner, in that typical math-science-nerd way. Growing up during the sixties in Palo Alto, he had top grades in

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-intelligence researchers, and he had pioneered the modern time-shared operating systems that would become the foundation of interactive computing. McCarthy had been born a “Red-Diaper Baby” in Boston in 1927, with both his parents active in the Communist Party. His father, John Patrick McCarthy, was an Irish immigrant who later became

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.Engelbart, “Augmented Knowledge Workshop,” p. 194. 20.Oral history, interview by Lowood and Adams. 21.Author interview, Bob Taylor, Woodside, Calif., August 12, 2000. 3 | Red-Diaper Baby 1.Author interview, Les Earnest, Los Altos Hills, Calif., July 12, 2001. 2.Anonymous, “Take Me, I’m Yours, The Autobiography of SAIL,” June 7

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words

misguided, with a rich history of racism, sexism, and corruption—construct your own critique. I heard every criticism growing up as the opposite of a red-diaper baby; my father was a lawyer whose practice was negotiating with unions on behalf of employers. But they or equivalent vehicles must exist and have serious

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz · 4 Mar 2014 · 270pp · 79,068 words

an active member in the Communist Party, my grandfather Phil Horowitz lost his job as a schoolteacher during the McCarthy era. My father was a red-diaper baby and grew up indoctrinated in the philosophy of the left. In 1968, he moved our family west to Berkeley, California, and became editor of the

Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV

by Peter Biskind · 6 Nov 2023 · 543pp · 143,084 words

1,200 of them for HBO, and over the course of her career she won more than thirty Emmys and fifteen Peabodys. Nevins was a red diaper baby who grew up on New York’s Lower East Side. “When I first met Michael, he was going to play tennis with somebody. He was

What's the Matter with White People

by Joan Walsh · 19 Jul 2012 · 284pp · 85,643 words

. Weinstein also made me realize how unusual my political views were, given my background. At In These Times, people were always assuming I was a “red diaper baby” from some left-wing activist family, given my eccentric ideas and passions. No, I’d tell them, my father was a former Christian Brother with

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words

and called us communists.” Oral history interview with Joe Overstreet, March 17–18, 2010, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. vii Allen Ginsberg was a red diaper baby and describes the American overthrow of the Mossaddegh (Iran) and Arbenz (Guatemala) governments in the early ’50s as important for his consciousness, but he characterized

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft

by Mike Sacks · 8 Jul 2009 · 588pp · 193,087 words

that affected me greatly. A lot of my friends had parents who had experienced the excitement and the prosperity of the fifties, whether they were “red-diaper babies” or “Eisenhower babies.” My parents didn't seem to know anything of that; I might as well have been raised during the Depression. My parents