Marvin Gettleman

Marvin E. Gettleman (September 12, 1933 – January 7, 2017), was an American professor emeritus of leftist history, best known for the anthology Vietnam and America.

Background Gettleman was born on September 12, 1933, in New York City. His parents were Arthur A. Gettleman and Pauline Antipol. In 1957, he graduated from the City College of New York and, in 1972, he earned a doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University.

Personal life and death Gettleman was married three times, first to fellow CCNY classmate and civil rights activist Marge Nissen, with whom he had two sons, Daniel and Todd Gettleman.

He then married psychiatric social worker Susan Braiman, with whom he had two daughters, Eva Braiman and Rebecca Gettleman.

His third and final marriage was to Ellen Schrecker. "Assassination in Argentina," New York Review of Books (1972) "The New York Workers School, 1923-1944: Communist Education in American Society," New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism (1993) "Lost World of U.S. Labor Education: Curricula at East and West Coast Community Schools, 1944-1957" (2001) "No Varsity Teams": New York's Jefferson School of Social Science, 1943–1956," Science & Society (2005) "Communist Labor Pedagogy before McCarthyism" (2005)