By Gerald Sorin

ISBN-10: 0253007275

ISBN-13: 9780253007278

Howard Fast's existence, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish ny road child to the wealthy and well-known writer of just about a hundred books, competitors the Horatio Alger fable. writer of bestsellers comparable to Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom street, My wonderful Brothers, and Spartacus, quick joined the yankee Communist social gathering in 1943 and remained a devoted member till 1957, regardless of being imprisoned for contempt of Congress. Gerald Sorin illuminates the connections between Fast's Jewishness, his writings, and his left-wing politics and explains Fast’s charm to the occasion and the explanations he stayed in it so long as he did. Recounting the tale of his deepest and public lifestyles with its experience and possibility, love and discomfort, fight, failure, and luck, Sorin additionally addresses questions equivalent to the connection among glossy Jewish id and radical pursuits, the implications of political myopia, and the advanced interplay of paintings, pop culture, and politics in 20th-century America.

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