In their 1998 book Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left, Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro define red diaper babies as "children of CPUSA members, children of former CPUSA members, and children whose parents never became members of the CPUSA but were involved in political, cultural, or educational activities led or supported by the Party".[5] More generally, the phrase is sometimes used to refer to a child of any
radical parent, regardless of that parent's past partisan affiliation (or the affiliation of the child).
In the 1976 film Marathon Man, the lead character, Thomas Levy, played by
Dustin Hoffman, is a "red diaper baby."[6]
Bock, Laura (2017). Red Diaper Daughter: Three Generations of Rebels and Revolutionaries. Laura Bock.
ISBN978-0-99816-160-0.
Christie, Chris (2010). This American Family: Growing Up as a Red Diaper Baby - A Memoir. Booklocker.
ISBN978-1-60910-580-8.
Flacks, Mickey; Flacks, Dick (2018). Making History / Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America. Rutgers University Press.
ISBN978-0-81358-922-0.
Horowitz, David (1996). Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. Simon & Schuster.
Kaplan, Judy; Shapiro, Linn, eds. (1998). Red Diapers: Growing up in the Communist Left. Simon & Schuster.
ISBN0-25202-161-4.