John gerassi biography

He spent a decade in journalism, worked as an editor for Time and, later, Newsweek before serving as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times.
Journalist and scholar John ("Tito") Gerassi received his MA at Columbia University and earned his doctorate at the London School of Economics.
John Gerassi, also known as Tito Gerassi or mononymously Tito, was a French-American leftist professor, journalist, author, scholar, political activist, and revolutionary.

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John Gerassi Papers

Journalist and scholar John ("Tito") Gerassi was born in France in July 1931, to Fernando Gerassi, a Turkish-born artist of Sephardic Jewish heritage, and Ukranian born Stepha Awdykowicz. Moving between Barcelona and Paris, the couple belonged to the cosmopolitan circle of artists and intellectuals who congregated in cafes to argue art and politics, and counted Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as close friends. When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, Fernando Gerassi joined the Loyalist forces. He served as a general in the Spanish Army and became the inspiration for the figure of Gomez, the artist and revolutionary in Sartre's trilogy Roads to Freedom. Following the Fascist victory in Spain, the Gerassi family emigrated to the United States in 1940. John Gerassi was raised in New York City and attended Columbia University. He spent a decade in journalism, worked as an editor for Timeand, later, Newsweek before serving as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. He left journalism to pursue a career in academia and earned his doctorate at the

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Gerassi, John

GERASSI, John. American/French, b. 1931. Genres: History, Politics/Government, Biography. Career: Professor of Political Science, Queens College, and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Latin American Ed., Time mag., 1957-61; Correspondent, New York Times, 1961-62; freelance writer, 1962-63; Latin American Ed., Newsweek mag., 1963-66, and Ramparts, 1966-71. Former Instructor in International Relations, San Francisco State College, University of Paris, Free University of Berlin, University of California at Irvine, and Bard College. Publications: The Great Fear, 1963 (as The Great Fear in Latin America, 1965); Fidel Castro: A Biography, 1967; North Vietnam: A Documentary, 1968; The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American Society, 1969, rev. ed., 2002; The Coming of the New International, 1971; (with F. Browning) The American Way of Crime, 1980; The Premature Antifascists: North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, 1986; Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century, 1989. EDITOR: Venceremos: The Speeches and W

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John Gerassi Oral History Collection

Journalist and scholar John ("Tito") Gerassi was born in France in July 1931, to Fernando Gerassi, a Turkish-born artist of Sephardic Jewish heritage, and Ukranian born Stepha Awdykowicz. Moving between Barcelona and Paris, the couple belonged to the cosmopolitan circle of artists and intellectuals who congregated in cafes to argue art and politics, and counted Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as close friends. When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, Fernando Gerassi joined the Loyalist forces. He served as a general in the Spanish Army and became the inspiration for the figure of Gomez, the artist and revolutionary in Sartre's trilogy Roads to Freedom. Following the Fascist victory in Spain, the Gerassi family emigrated to the United States in 1940. John Gerassi was raised in New York City and attended Columbia University. He spent a decade in journalism, worked as an editor for Time and, later, Newsweek before serving as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. He left journalism to pursue a career in academia and earned his