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According to Wikipedia, Daniel Joseph Leab was an American historian of 20th-century history. He made significant academic contributions to fields of American labor unions and anti-Communism. He was long-time editor of three journals and magazines.

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From Sambo to Superspade: The Black experience in motion pictures (1975) (82)
“United we eat”: The creation and organization of the unemployed councils in 1930 (1967) (33)
Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America. By Herbert G. Gutman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Pp. 343. $12.50 (1977) (22)
From "Sambo" to "Superspade": (2013) (15)
How Red was my Valley: Hollywood, the Cold War Film, and I Married A Communist (1984) (14)
A Union of Individuals: The Formation of the American Newspaper Guild, 1933-1936 (1970) (13)
‘The Iron Curtain’ (1948): Hollywood's first Cold War movie (1988) (12)
The Labor history reader (1987) (8)
Which Side Are You On? The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931–1939. By John W. Hevener. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 216. $15.00 (1981) (8)
American working class history : a representative bibliography (1983) (5)
Federal Bureau of Investigation confidential files, Communist activity in the entertainment industry : FBI surveillance files on Hollywood, 1942-1958 (1991) (5)
THE MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE (1967) (4)
Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm (2007) (4)
Response To the Hutchins Commission (1970) (4)
Guilty by suspicion (1991) (3)
BARTER AND SELF-HELP GROUPS 1932-33 (1966) (3)
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE FILMING OF GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM IN THE 1950S (2006) (3)
Anti-Communism, the FBI, and Matt Cevic: The Ups and Downers of Professional Informer (1991) (2)
"All-Colored"--But Not Much Different: Films Made for Negro Ghetto Audiences, 1913-1928 (1975) (2)
The Gamut from A to B: The Image of the Black in Pre-1915 Movies (1973) (2)
Animators and animals: john halas, joy batchelor, and george orwell's Animal Farm (2005) (2)
Remembering the Jacksons (2008) (1)
Toward unionization: The American newspaper guild and the Newark ledger strike of 1934–35 (1970) (1)
Canned Crisis: U.S. Magazines, Quemoy and the Matsus (1967) (1)
Writing history with film: Two views of the 1937 strike against general motors by the UAW (1979) (1)
BAMBAM Update, Current as of July 1984 (1985) (1)
The American Left and the Politics of Folk Music: An Exchange (2015) (1)
Bridging the Atlantic: Movie Stereotypes, 1890-1918: Some German and American National Perceptions (2002) (1)
Editor's Introduction to the Roundtable on The FBI and the Catholic Church by Steve Rosswurm (2012) (1)
Clement price, ‘liberators’ and truth in history: A comment (1994) (1)
Editor's Introduction to the Symposium (2012) (1)
A Pale Black Imitation (1975) (1)
BAMBAM Update, December 1983 (1984) (1)
‘In the Name of the Emperor’: war guilt and the medium of film (1995) (0)
Book Review: Race and Ethnicity in Modern America (1975) (0)
BAMBAM Update, 1982-May, 1983 (1983) (0)
Europe (1992) (0)
Introduction: Politics and Film (2008) (0)
The Great Depression and the New Deal : a thematic encyclopedia (2010) (0)
Mückenberger and Guy's cold war: a comment (1993) (0)
Book Review: American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985, by Daniel J. Leab (1987) (0)
Government as Employer.@@@The Urban Community and Its Unionized Bureaucracies: Pressure Politics in Local Government Labor Relations. (1974) (0)
Dulles at the Brink: Some Diverse Reactions from 10 Years Ago (1966) (0)
Mike Nash: “a man among men” (2013) (0)
Controversy Unresolved: Theodore Draper's American Communism and Soviet Russia After 50 Years—A Symposium (2009) (0)
Cornelis A. van Minnen and Sylvia L. Milton (eds.), Political Repression in U.S. History (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2009, $34.95). Pp. 242. isbn 978 89 0865 9319 4. (2010) (0)
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory City. By Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenbach. New York, Pantheon Books, 1978. Pp. xiii + 395. $15.00 (1980) (0)
US radio fights political control: 1936 (1989) (0)
The Americans: A Nation of Immigrants (1973) (0)
Introduction (2010) (0)
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in Hollywood (review) (2010) (0)
Fame is Fleeting (1999) (0)
Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America . By Harold C. Livesay. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Pp. viii + 195. $8.95, cloth; $3.95, paper. (1979) (0)
Progress and challenges in short- to medium-range coupled prediction (2015) (0)
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990: Side by Side - Hollywood and German Film Culture (2004) (0)
Encyclopedia of American recessions and depressions (2014) (0)
Book Review: Historical Studies: Music Matters: The Performer and the American Federation of Musicians (1990) (0)
The Central Intelligence Agency: A Documentary History. By Scott C. Monje. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008. Pp. xlix, 313. $69.95.) (2010) (0)
PARE LORETZ AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FILM PRODUCTION (1965) (0)
Freedomways (2008) (0)
The Black In Films (1975) (0)
Labor and Management: Proceedings of the Fourth Fuji Conference. Edited by Keiichiro Nakagawa. ISBS, University of Tokyo Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 251. $25.50 (1981) (0)
When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era, 1898–1916 . By Bruno Ramirez. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. vii, 241. $17.50. (1979) (0)
Introduction (2014) (0)
To the Reader (2002) (0)
"I was a communist for the FBI". The unhappy life and times of matt cvetic", Daniel J. Leab, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000 : [recenzja] / Włodzmierz Batóg. (2002) (0)
A Walk on the Wilder Side: The Apartment as Social Commentary (2000) (0)

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