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William Herrick chronicles his adventures and misadventures on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, in (and very much out of) the Communist Party, driving a tractor on a communal farm in Michigan, jumping the line as . .

Herrick chronicles a life of great conviction and great disillusion. He went to Spain in 1936 to fight against the Fascists and there witnessed the horrifying acts that Fascists and Communists alike committed, before he was felled by a near-fatal wound.

Jumping the Line is a great portmanteau of a book-unwieldy, poorly packed, the contents repeatedly . But jumping the line serves as a metaphor for the larger story of his life as recounted here, the decision to end what had been a lifelong association with the Communist party.

Jumping the Line is a great portmanteau of a book-unwieldy, poorly packed, the contents repeatedly threatening to spill out of the narrative altogether. It is also irresistible. Countless other memoirs have sketched the world of immigrant Jewish radicalism in New York City, but none has done so better than Herrick.

The bulk of the book focuses on Herrick's involvement during the Spanish Civil War. Like many of his communist comrades, Herrick went to Spain to fight for freedom. His experiences as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade shattered his political world forever. Herrick saw in Spain that the Brigades and their Stalinist masters were fighting not for freedom, but against it by executing the freedom fighting anarchists.

Items related to Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures. William Herrick Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical. ISBN 13: 9780966856712. Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical. Raised with Communism in his blood, it was inevitable that Herrick would volunteer to fight in Spain with the hope of quelling fascism and battling for the rights of workers.

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after almost 100 years, there are Communists, some on the radical left and others who are still telling outright lies about the Spanish Civil War. Herrick's eyewitness account exposes the lies and tells the truth about how the members of the Abraham LIncoln brigade became an arm of the Soviet Union's secret police in exterminating opposition in Spain. 5/5, highly recommended.

Doulkree

An extremely energetic emotional account of one experience of the Spanish civil war and other radical causes of the time. Readers of Homage to Catalonia or of Hemingway's' books about he period would be interested. Very good sense of the times and of Herrick though not really of any other characters.

watchman

This should be read along with Orwell's book. I only gave it three stars
'cause he doesn't edit himself as well as Orwell did, i.e., he includes a
lot of trivial stuff. But it does show that if you volunteer to be cannon fodder
for the "movement", eventually you wind up on the table, not at the head of it.

Adoraris

Born and raised in a Communist Family the author's life experiences teach him that the ideal of Communism is not what the Communist Party seeks. A fascinating account and extremely well written book.

Cala

A warts and all account of the communist party USA. It's actually kind of sad how he goes from a true believer to disillusioned writer.

deadly claw

Bill Herrick had good insight into the Battle for Jarama since he was there. After his injury, it looks like most of the book is hearsay and after the Spanish Civil War much of the book is vitriol. I don't doubt that Herrick represents several of the disaffected Lincoln vets but the damage he does to all their memories is painful to read.

Steelraven

This book is, very simply, the best memoir ever published by an American volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. It is a relentless autopsy on the murdered idealism of the young Communists who went to fight the fascists in Spain but ended up serving as hard guys for Russian dictator Josef Stalin and his secret police. It also shows clearly that the native supporters of the Spanish left were out for more than just a repudiation of fascist aggression: they were fighting for a social revolution, based on the labor movement, of a kind Stalin hated and feared much more than he did the fascists. This book also stands as a uniquely truthful and beautiful account of the lives of American and international Communist cadres; Bill Herrick speaks for every comrade who risked his or her life fighting for the world revolution in the 1930s, only to be brutally betrayed by Stalinism. It is extremely doubtful that a better book about the appeal of revolutionary Communism or the experience of its youthful militants will ever be written, at least in English.

"Jumping The Line" is a brutally honest and frank account of William Herrick's life on the American Left - as a young Communist who quickly became disillusioned with the excesses of Stalinism and of Soviet Anti-Semitism. An early volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion fighting Fascism in Spain, Herrick was badly wounded in the first major battle fought by the Lincolns at Jarama. Transferred to a hospital, Herrick witnessed firsthand the betrayals and backstabbing policies of the Soviet Secret Police and their minions. In one horrific episode, Herrick recounts how, as an "unreliable" he was forced to be involved in an GPUInternational Brigade execution of accused "Trotskyist" civilians, an event that has haunted him to this day.

Returning home, Herrick then suffered the emotional wound of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, and being Jewish, promptly broke with the Party - courageously demonstrating as "a veteran of the Spanish Civil War - victim of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. He went on to adventures serving as a majordomo of sorts for Orson Welles - and some of the tales told here about "Citizen Kane" are quite hilarious. Herrick once told Life Magazine that his reasons for going to fight Hitlerism in Spain were that "As A Jew I know what Hitler is doing to my people".While he later admitted that it was the Party who instructed this to say the aforementioned remark, his pride and emotional attachment to his people clearly stands out in "Jumping The Line" as well as his "no prisoners taken" attitude towards both Fascism and Communism. This is indeed a memoir that Jews and all interested in the Spanish Civil War worldwide should read and while Herrick is a man who will admit his faults with candor, he is nonetheless a brave man and excellent writer - "Hermanos" is also strongly recommended by this reviewer.