At age thirteen, a young girl learns that her parents had been Communists during the 1930s and '40s while working for the U.S. Government. Her father is called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and must decide how he will testify. His decision breaks his spirit and changes his family's life forever.

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Margaret Fuchs Singer is the daughter of former Communists Herbert and Frances Rice Fuchs. During the 1940s and 1950s, she lived with her father, mother and older brother Peter in Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado.

Ms. Singer holds a B.A. in Psychology from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and an M.A. in Deaf Education from Columbia Teachers College in New York City. She has published three professional papers in the fields of psychology and education. In addition to Legacy of a False Promise, Ms. Singer has published several articles and has written an as-yet-unpublished children's story and a collection of autobiographical short shorts.

Retired from a thirty-five year career in special education, Ms. Singer lives with her husband Michael in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has two grown children, a daughter Ilana, who lives in western Massachusetts and a son Dan, who makes his home in Chicago.

In the process of writing Legacy of a False Promise, Ms. Singer attended writing workshops at Eastern Michigan University, the Cranbrook School, the Ann Arbor Public Schools and Bear River Writers' Conference in Walloon Lake, Michigan. For the past nine years she has participated in a bi-weekly writers' group.

Ms. Singer completed eight years of research for her memoir using FBI files, American University archives, Venona documents, newspaper files, books and articles. She has interviewed noted historians who have written extensively on the subject of American Communism as well as men and women who lived through the McCarthy Era, most notably Harry Magdoff, named by Elizabeth Bentley as a member of a spy ring, the "Perlo Group."