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...despite the strict atmosphere, Wechsler??s undergraduate life was filled with adventure. He traveled to Washington for peace protests and hitchhiked across the country and to Canada over holidays and weekends...
...patriotic, Wechsler joined the U.S. Army, serving in Bavaria, Germany. At the same time, Wechsler kept quiet about his radical political views, which led him so far as to take part in communist May Day parade while on a break in Spain. But with McCarthyism raging at home, Wechsler??s political activities would soon become a problem...
...Wechsler??s knee-jerk reaction was panic—he had lied about his past participation in “subversive organizations” when joining the army and was now threatened with a $10,000 fine and/or a five-year prison sentence...
...Wechsler] was the anti-Holden Caulfield, a red antithesis of J.D. Salinger’s lonely, alienated teen traveler in Manhattan,” historian Mark Solomon writes in the afterword to Wechsler??s book...
...Solomon points out, Wechsler??s experiences are both idiosyncratic and generational. Like many radical youths of the post-Depression era, Wechsler was drawn to the egalitarian ideals of socialism and communism. His book provides a glimpse into the little-known generation “nestled between the highly visible Depression and World War II radical generations and the new left boomers of the sixties...