ABSTRACT
The publication of Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, a revision of the author's dissertation, allowed him to put back all the evocative language that his doctoral committee had made me remove. One afternoon in the fall of 1972, he was at his typewriter struggling with the book on Reed, when he received a phone call, and a voice said something like, “This is Warren Beatty. Their occasional talks over the next seven years took place first in Warren’s penthouse at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, then, after he moved, at his palatial home on Mulholland Drive that had a single piece of furniture in his enormous living room: a love seat. After 1975, when his biography was published, Warren often wanted him to elaborate on something in the book.
