![]() ![]() He remained head of the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) and editor of its publication Student Outlook from 1933 until 1935. ![]() įollowing his graduation in 1932, Lash went to work for the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), an independent socialist organization closely tied to the SPA. In 1930 while a Junior at City College, Lash joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA), of which he remained a member until his resignation in 1937. He received his bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1931 and a master's degree from Columbia University in New York City in 1932. Joseph was the eldest of three sons and two daughters of the couple. Lash was born December 2, 1909, in New York City, the son of the former Mary Avchin and Samuel Lash, ethnic Jewish immigrants from the Russian empire. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in Biography for Eleanor and Franklin (1971), the first of two volumes he wrote about the former First Lady. ![]() Joseph Paul Lash (Decem– August 22, 1987) was an American radical political activist, journalist, and writer. ![]() Lash of the American Student Union before the Dies Committee, 1939.Ĭity College of New York, Columbia UniversityĮleanor and Franklin (1971), Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972) ![]()
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