Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Kenneth Ackerman to present their new book "Trotsky in New York, 1917: Portrait of a Radical on the Eve of Revolution."
Ackerman’s acclaimed biography, Boss Tweed, was an accomplished portrait of both a life and a particular historical moment, and the former Senate counsel returns to old New York for this compelling back story of one of the twentieth century’s iconic revolutionaries. Trotsky spent just ten weeks in Gotham, arriving in January 1917 after being expelled from France and Spain. He was virtually unknown, but as he plunged into local politics, edited a left-wing tabloid in Greenwich Village, and, most importantly, argued over American involvement in the First World War, he honed the ideas that would shape his later political vision.
