American Girls in Red Russia

Guest:Julia Mickenberg is a professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States and co-editor of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature. Her new book is American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press. Music: Emily’s Sassy Lime, “You with the Crumby Face,” Desperate, Scared, But Social, 1995.