A Radical Romance

First U.S. Edition

Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would pass away.

Theirs was an attraction of opposites- he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Easte...