Marzani & Munsell

• Name — Marzani & Munsell • Founded — 1954 • Founders — Carl Marzani Angus Cameron (publisher) • Country — United States • Headquarters — New York City, New York, US • Publications — Books

After release from prison in 1951, Carl Marzani joined Cameron Associates and partnered with Angus Cameron to run Liberty Book Club. Marzani & Munsell formed as a book club (in an unclear relationship with Alexander Ector Orr Munsell, "that unusual combination of a practicing Christian and a practicing Marxist" per Carl Marzani, and son and heir of Albert Henry Munsell) and also operated what had become the Library-Prometheus Book Club. Together, the two book clubs, with some 8,000 members, published and distributed many books following their progressive ideology. In a later interview, Marzani described his publishing house: In 1959 when Cameron left for at job at Knopf, Marzani became president. Marzani and Munsell publishing house "was destroyed in a mysterious fire" in 1966, ending the run of books, pamphlets, broadsheets and reprints. Marzani later described the loss: "It destroyed our stock, our lists, everything, and we had no insurance."

According to allegations made in 1994 by Oleg Kalugin, a retired KGB officer, Marzani was a contact for the Soviet secret police agency, the KGB, while running Marzani & Munsell, and the KGB subsidized his publishing house in the 1960s. Allegedly, the amounts were $15,000 in 1960, then a two-year grant in 1961 of $55,000.

• Illustration — Marzani & Munsell published first USA translation of Antonio Gramsci's writings • Illustration — Marzani & Munsell published Robert F. Williams's Negroes with Guns. • 1955: • False Witness • Labor's Untold Story) • 1957: • The open Marxism of Antonio Gramsci • 1959: • A visit to Soviet science • World without war • The doctor business • Comrade Venka • 1960: • Inside the Khrushchev Era • The double bed from the feminine side • The tragedy of American diplomacy • The artist in society • The flowers of Hiroshima • The Rise of the People's Communes in China • The world of C. Wright Mills • 1961: • The new Germany and the old Nazis • Cuba: prophetic island • War and peace, and the problem of Berlin • The road from Sharpeville • Dollars and Sense of Disarmament (1961) • Cuba versus CIA • 1962: • The Era of McCarthyism • The Negro today • The Shelter Hoax and Foreign Policy • The political economy of growth • The adventurers • The military background to disarmamen • Negroes with Guns • China, Russia and the U.S.A. • 1963: • War and Peace in Vietnam • A quarter-century of un-Americana: a tragico-comical memorabilia of HUAC • Heusinger of the Fourth Reich • The golden fleece: selling the good life to Americans • People with strength in Monroe, North Carolina • Dragon pink on old white • 1964: • The mood of the nation (November 22–29, 1963) • Oswald: assassin or fall guy? • Bitter end in Southeast Asia • The Yahoos • Goldwater-ism • The Goldwater coloring book • The Black Anglo-Saxons • Soul of the Republic: The Negro Today • 1965: • The Conscience of the Senate on the Vietnam War (1965) • Gideon's Army • v. 1. The components of the decision • v. 2. The decision and the organization • v. 3. The campaign and the vote • Prosperity in crisis • Peace by finesse • A pictorial history of the Jews in the United States • Automation • Journey to the Soviet Trade Unions • Storm the gates of Jericho • What to do about Vietnam? • 1966: • The gaps in the Warren report • Critical reactions to the Warren report • Concentration camps USA • Harlem stirs • German Hand on the Nuclear Trigger • The Silent Slaughter • Johnson's War

• Illustration — Marzani & Munsell published Cuba: Prophetic Island by Waldo Frank • Illustration — Marzani & Munsell published A visit to Soviet science by Stefan Heym

• Carl Marzani, President

• Charles R. Allen Jr. • Herbert Aptheker • Paul A. Baran • J. D. Bernal • Baron Blackett • Patrick Blackett • Phillip Bonosky • Richard Owen Boyer • Richard Carter • Carl Dreher • Barrows Dunham • Abraham Feinberg • Waldo David Frank • Joseph M. Gillman • Kumar Goshal • Fred Halstead • Nathan Hare • Margot Heinemann • Stefan Heym • Leo Huberman • Joachim Joesten • Mark Lane (author) • Martin Luther King Jr. • Curtis D. MacDougall • Andrew March • Carl Marzani • Harvey Matusow • Eve Merriam • Edita Morris • Fred Warner Neal • Truman J. Nelson • Mike Newberry • Pavel Nilin • Eric Norden • Victor Perlo • Charlotte Pomerantz • Bernard Sachs • Joseph J.Seldin • Morris Schappes • Edgar Snow • Joseph William Still • Anna Louise Strong • Paul Sweezy • T.H. Tetens • Robert F. Williams • William Appleman Williams • William Worthy • Fred Wright (cartoonist)

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