When Father Didn't Know Best
Bettina Aptheker's engrossing memoir, "Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel
" is about breaking free -- emotionally, politically and intellectually -- from her father, Herbert Aptheker, the most famous Marxist historian in the United States, whose 1943 book "American Negro Slave Revolts" shattered the image of happy, complacent slaves.
It has also angered a few unreconstructed Marxist historians and scholars who still don't understand that incest is a crime, not simply an embarassing blemish on an otherwise significant career.
