The November 5, 2007, issue of The Nation magazine includes an article about Bettina Aptheker and the alleged abuse that she suffered at the hands of her father, Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker. Eric Foner, noted historian and co-editor of the recently published University of Illinois Press reader Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy, comments in the story on the merits of Herbert Aptheker’s writings relative to the charges of abuse.