| Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane Contributor(s): Sorin, Gerald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253007275 ISBN-13: 9780253007278 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2012021224 |
| Series: Modern Jewish Experience |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (2.15 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus, Fast joined the American Communist Party in 1943 and remained a loyal member until 1957, despite being imprisoned for contempt of Congress. Gerald Sorin illuminates the connections among Fast's Jewishness, his writings, and his left-wing politics and explains Fast's attraction to the Party and the reasons he stayed in it as long as he did. Recounting the story of his private and public life with its adventure and risk, love and pain, struggle, failure, and success, Sorin also addresses questions such as the relationship between modern Jewish identity and radical movements, the consequences of political myopia, and the complex interaction of art, popular culture, and politics in 20th-century America. |