Max Elbaum

{{Short description|American author and social activist}}

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| name= Max Elbaum

| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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| website = {{URL|http://www.revolutionintheair.com}} }}

Max Elbaum is an American author and left-wing activist. He has written extensively about the New Left, the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement.[http://www.revolutionintheair.com/bio.html Revolution in The Air] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102055350/http://www.revolutionintheair.com/bio.html |date=2012-01-02 }} His book on the "new communist movement" of the 1970s and 1980s, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, was praised by historian David Garrow as "an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship".{{cite web | url=http://www.davidgarrow-com.hb2hosting.net/File/DJG%202002%20VVoiceElbaumRev.pdf | title=Review of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che| work=The Village Voice | date=July 9, 2002 | accessdate=May 25, 2016 | author=Garrow, David J .| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723143348/http://www.davidgarrow-com.hb2hosting.net/File/DJG%202002%20VVoiceElbaumRev.pdf | archivedate=July 23, 2011 |url-status=dead}}

He was a member of Students for a Democratic Society and later a founder of Line of March.{{cite web | url=https://www.coloursofresistance.org/612/interview-with-max-elbaum/ | title=Colours of Resistance Archive }}