Howard Fast : life and literature in the left lane /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sorin, Gerald, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012.
Series:Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
Subjects:
Fast, Howard, > 1914-2003.
Fast, Howard, > 1914-2003
1900-1999
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Jewish authors > United States > Biography.
Communists > United States > Biography.
Écrivains américains > 20e siècle > Biographies.
Écrivains juifs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Communistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Authors, American
Communists
Jewish authors
United States
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Paradise Postponed; 2 The War against Fascism; 3 The Life of the Party; 4 Cold War, Hot Seat; 5 Banned, Barred, and Besieged; 6 The Myopia of American Communism; 7 Literature and Reality; 8 Free! But Not at Last; 9 Trials and Tribulations; 10 McCarthyism, Stalinism, and the World according to Fast; 11 Culture and the Cold War; 12 Things Fall Apart; the Left Cannot Hold; 13 Fast Forward; 14 Life in the Fast Lane; 15 Fast and Loose; 16 Fall and Decline.

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