Max Elbaum is an American author and social activist. He has written extensively about the New Left, Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. 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 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow as "an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship".
