In the fall of 1960, during a three-month visit to Hungary, Arthur Kahn unsuccessfully asked his hosts to arrange a meeting with Gyorgy Lukacs, a persona non grata to the Communist regime. Kahn arranged to meet Lukacs on his own and proposed translating some Lukacs essays never before appearing in English. During the three years Kahn worked on the translations, he and Lukacs engaged in a voluminous correspondence, investigating Marxism as it applied to contemporary events like the Vietnam war. Extracts from this correspondence will be included in a forthcoming volume of Kahns' autobiography,...

In the mid 1980s Arthur Kahn worked as a volunteer at the Gay Men's Health Crisis, an organization leading the fight against AIDS epidemic. He subsequently conducted interviews in several countries regarding AL-721, a medication greeted as a possible cure for the disease. The result was "Aids, The Winter War: A Testing of America" published in 1993. His next undertaking seemed to follow naturally, interviewing some 60 New York City gay activists--gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and a transvestite, people making positive contributions in varied aspects of society. The result is "The Many Faces of...

BOOK TWO: Resisting foreign and domestic policies of the American Century champions (the Military-Industrial Complex): Communist activist; Director of Nationalities, Henry Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign; research director, the Peace Information Center, chaired by W.E.B. Du Bois organizing the Stockholm Peace Appeal petition campaign; 1951, six-month, twenty-five state tour for the American Peace Crusade; 1952 American Labor Party congressional candidate opposing FDR, Jr.; 1954, committee in defense of court-martialed Korean War Puerto Rican soldiers; 1955, invitation...