An Un-American Childhood; Author: Kimmage, Ann; Paperback

Author: Kimmage, Ann
Paperback; 19 B&w Photographs
288 pages
Published: October 1998
University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820320781

An Un-American Childhood is the amazing story of Ann Kimmage's experiences as the child of American communists who, at the height of McCarthyism in 1950, fled the United States to avoid possible espionage charges. What Kimmage had at first been led to believe was a brief sojourn became a transforming, thirteen-year journey to Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, East Germany, and China. Ending with their disillusioned return to the United States, her family's saga presents a mix of international political intrigue and personal drama. An Un-American Childhood tells of a family twice torn from its cultural roots and tried, tested, and changed by and for its beliefs.This story is about Ann Kimmage's experiences as a child of American communists who, in 1950, fled the US to avoid possible espionage charges. After travelling to Caechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, East Germany, and China they return to the US, the family tried, tested and changed.