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Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane Hardback - 2012

by Gerald Sorin

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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 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.

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  • Title Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane
  • Author Gerald Sorin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Publication date 2012-11-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780253007278 / 0253007275
  • Weight 2.15 lbs (0.98 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Communists - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012021224
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Choice, 04/01/2013, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/17/2012, Page 0

About the author

Gerald Sorin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of American and Jewish Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is author of Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent, winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award in History and The Prophetic Minority: American Jewish Immigrant Radicals, 1880-1920 (IUP, 1985).

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