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Leslie Evans was born in New York City in 1942 into a family absorbed by spiritualism and the occult. Raised in Los Angeles he read widely in the literature of literary outsiders, frequented the coffee houses of the late fifties, and took an active part in the civil rights movement sparked by the Freedom Rides and lunch counter sit-ins. In 1961 he joined the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, where he was active in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and then for twelve years on the organization's professional staff in New York City, during and massive anti-Vietnam War movement in which this organization played a key part.

While in New York he served for four years as Managing Editor of World Outlook (later, Intercontinental Press), the weekly news Leslie Evans was born in New York City in 1942 into a family absorbed by spiritualism and the occult. Raised in Los Angeles he read widely in the literature of literary outsiders, frequented the coffee houses of the late fifties, and took an active part in the civil rights movement sparked by the Freedom Rides and lunch counter sit-ins. In 1961 he joined the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, where he was active in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and then for twelve years on the organization's professional staff in New York City, during and massive anti-Vietnam War movement in which this organization played a key part.

While in New York he served for four years as Managing Editor of World Outlook (later, Intercontinental Press), the weekly news service of the Trotskyist Fourth International. For another four years he was e ditor of the International Socialist Review, the party's monthly journal.

From 1979 to 1982 Evans lived in Virginia, Minnesota, where he worked in an industrial electric motor repair shop and was on the labor crew in the iron mines and a member of the Steelworkers Union.

Returning to Los Angeles, he did graduate work in sociology at UCLA. Beginning in 1986 he worked as a staff research associate and editor at UCLA's Center for Pacific Rim Studies; was production editor for six years of Chinese Science, annual journal of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine; and was program officer for the university's Asia-Pacific Institute.

A high point of that period was two years in Geneva and Los Angeles as production editor of a major World Health Organization report documenting the failure to invest in research on the diseases that ravage the third world. He also has served as an editor for studies by the World Bank.

From 2001 to 2005 Evans was website and publications manager for UCLA's International Institute, where as their web journalist he covered talks by Mikhail Gorbachev, John Kerry, Warren Christopher, Edward Said, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, General Anthony Zinni, Shimon Peres, and former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda.

Evans is the author of China After Mao (1978) and editor of some ten other books, including the standard library edition of Leon Trotsky's writings on China.

In 1988 Leslie Evans and his wife Jennifer Charnofsky moved to the predominately black and Latino West Adams section of South Los Angeles near USC, where they restored a 1910 Craftsman home that became a city Historic Cultural Monument. Evans has been deeply involved as an activist in his community, during the gang wars of the early 1990s and up to the present, serving on the board of one of the city's volunteer neighborhood councils and several other community organizations. ...more

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	Outsider's Reverie 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chinese Communist Party in Power by Shu-Tse Peng, Les Evans 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Leninist Strategy of Party Building: The Debate on Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America by Joseph Hansen, Les Evans (Editor), Richard Finkel (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China after Mao 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watergate & the Myth of American Democracy by Les Evans, Allen Myers liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1974 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disaster in Chile 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shaggy Man's Ramblings: Essays by Leslie Evans 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More from the Shaggy Man: Essays by Leslie Evans 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invasion of Czechoslovakia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wage Price Freeze Swindle 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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