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Con man of the western world: the life and death of Willi Muenzenberg.(Books)(Book Review)

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| July 01, 2004 | Coleman, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Muenzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West, by Scan McMeekin; Yale University Press, 2003, about $60.

EVERYBODY SEEMS agreed that Willi Muenzenberg (1889-1940) was a genius. Arthur Koestler said it repeatedly. David Caute spoke of his "financial genius", Stephen Koch of his "entrepreneurial genius", Richard Krygier and Arnold Beichman of his "propaganda genius". I did my bit too--describing him years ago as an "impresario of genius". So after all that nonsense, it is a relief at last to read Sean McMeekin who says that, if Muenzenberg was any sort of genius at all, it was an evil genius.

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