Extraordinary People

Leonard R. Sussman has led quite an amazing life, traveling all over the world in pursuit of democracy and freedom. In this book, he relates his encounters freedom fighters across the globe: Luis Munoz Marin, social revolutionary in Puerto Rico; Andrei Amalrik, Soviet dissident who died young; South African parliamentarian Helen Suzman, longtime opponent of apartheid; Aristedes Katoppo, Indonesian newspaper editor exiled and later editorially "beheaded" for publicizing issues the government disapproved of; the Rubins, a husband-and-wife radio team fighting censorship in dictatorial Paraguay; and many more.

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