Martin Duberman

Paul Robeson (1995)

Communist or not, Paul Robeson's politics examined by biographer Martin DubermanOn March 19, 1983, CBC-TV broadcast an obituary of Fred Rose, the only Communist to have served in the Canadian Parliament (1943-1947). Convicted of espionage and expelled from Parliament, Rose spent four and one-hal...

Stonewall (1994)

Haymarket (2004)

Duberman is a renowned historian, and a very fluent writer to boot. I wanted to see how he used this historic event, and the real people involved in it -- including the two central characters, Lucy and Albert Parsons, as a novel. He used lots of archival material, newspaper accounts and even bi...