John Gerassi

John "Tito" Gerassi

John "Tito" Gerassi was a professor and journalist born in Paris on July 12, 1931, and passed away in New York City July 26, 2012. Gerassi wrote a number of books on Latin America, Jean-Paul Sartre, and political affairs. He taught at a variety of colleges and universities in the United States and in France. Most notably, Gerassi was a longtime professor in the Political Science department at Queens College of the City University of New York. He taught at Queens College from 1981 until his passing. He was an activist in the New Left and a leading thinker regarding the significance of Sartre's work.

His father was Fernando Gerassi, an anarchist general who defended the Republic from Franco during the Spanish Civil War.

Bibliography

• John Gerassi. The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans. New York: Macmillan, 1963. According to WorldCat, the book is in 883 libraries^[1]
• John Gerassi. Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009^[2]
• John Gerassi, Venceremos! The Speeches and Writings of Ernesto Che Guevarra, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968.
• John Gerassi, Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. According to WorldCat, the book is in 807 libraries^[3]
• John Gerassi. Towards Revolution. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971
• John Gerassi. The Premature Antifascists: North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 : an Oral History. New York: Praeger, 1986.^[4]
• John Gerassi. North Vietnam: a Documentary. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.
• John Gerassi. The Boys of Boise; Furor, Vice, and Folly in an American City. New York: Macmillan, 1966.^[5][6][7]
• John Gerassi. The Coming of the New International: A Revolutionary Anthology. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1971
• John Gerassi and Tony Monchinski, Unrepentant Radical Educator: The Writings of John Gerassi, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009.

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