Frank Kofsky

Biographic Data

ID653334
NAMEFrank Kofsky
GIVEN NAMESFrank
FAMILY NAMEKofsky
SIGNATUREKOFSKY F
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, Sacramento
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
H-INDEX0

  • Building the B-29

    Frank Kofsky, Jacob Vander MeulenARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Building the B-29. By Jacob Vander Meulen. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. 104 pp. $18.95, ISBN 1-56098-609-3.) Get access Frank Kofsky Frank Kofsky California State University, Sacramento, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1065–1066, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945752 Published: 01 December 1996

  • Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948

    Robert H Ferrell, Frank KofskyARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation. By Frank Kofsky. (New York: St. Martin's, 1993. xii, 420 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-31209482-5.) Get access Robert H. Ferrell Robert H. Ferrell Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1372, https://doi.org/10.23…

  • Black Culture and Black Consciousness

    Frank KofskyREVIEWThe American Historical Review1978

    When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group pride, history, or cohesiveness, Levine uncovered a treasure trove, illuminating a rich and complex African American oral tradition, including songs, p…

  • The State of Jazz

    Frank KofskyARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1977

  • The Jazz Tradition

    Open AccessFrank KofskyARTICLEJournal of Black Studies1971

    For the reader who wishes a superficial work on jazz, written from an avowedly anti-Marxist perspective by an author who confesses that he is repeatedly disengaged by the post1960 music of John Coltrane, by all means Williams (1970) is to be recommended.' Were it simply a matter of Williams' book alone, the matter could be left at that. Implicitly at stake, however, is an issue of much larger and more significant dimensions: who is to have custod…

  • Economic Progress in the USSR; The Alternative to Stalinism

    Lincoln Fairley, Frank KofskyARTICLEMonthly Review1968

    As a belated footnote to the November 1967 issue of Monthly Review, 50 Years of Soviet Power, may I call attention to a recent publication by the United Nations, Incomes in Post-War Europe: A Study of Policies, Growth and Distribution (Geneva, 1967). This is Part 2 of the Economic Survey of Europe in 1965, prepared by the Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Europe. The period covered is 1950 to 1965. The study is divided into two sections:…

  • Vietnam and Social Revolution

    Frank KofskyARTICLEMonthly Review1967

    In the issue of April, 1965, the editors of Monthly Review suggested an hypothesis for the war in Vietnam which stressed its importance for American capitalism as a testing ground for measures designed to repress wars of national liberation anywhere in the world. If the revolutionary forces of South Vietnam, the Front of National Liberation (FLN), were able to carry out a social transformation in the face of direct United States military oppositi…

  • Malcolm X

    Frank KofskyARTICLEMonthly Review1966

    Review of The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley; Malcolm X Speaks edited by George Breitman.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

  • Reply to Mr. Kofsky; Rejoinder

    David Horowitz, Frank KofskyARTICLEMonthly Review1962

    The Books section of MR for October, 1962, carried a review by Frank Kofsky of the book Student, by David Horowitz, which deals with the radical student movement at the University of California at Berkeley. In view of the importance of students to the future of radicalism in this country, we are devoting a major part of the Books section in this issue to Mr. Horowitz's reply and Mr. Kofsky's rejoinder. —The EditorsThis article can also be found a…

  • The Student Movement

    Frank KofskyARTICLEMonthly Review1962

    Review of Student by David Horowitz.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website