Howard Fast Life and Literature in the Left Lane

Name: Howard Fast Life and Literature in the Left Lane
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ISBN: 9780253007278

ISBN-10: 0253007275

ISBN-13: 9780253007278

Edition: 2012

Authors: 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,…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Gerald Sorin is Distinguished Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at SUNY New Paltz. His most recent book is Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Paradise Postponed


Publish or Perish


Politics Delayed



The War against Fascism


The Fatal Embrace


The Reds and the Blacks



The Life of the Party


Innocent Abroad


The Road Not Taken


The Politics of Literature



Cold War, Hot Seat


The Discouraged American


Down and Out in the USA



Banned, Barred, and Besieged


It Can't Happen Here


War and Peace



The Myopia of American Communism


Foley Square Follies


Waltzing at the Waldorf


April in Paris


The Poison of Peekskill



Literature and Reality


Howard Fast: Prisoner


Great Expectations



Free! But Not at Last



Trials and Tribulations


Despair, Distraction, and Defeat


The Push and Pull of Politics


Confrontations Left and Right



McCarthyism, Stalinism, and the World according to Fast



Culture and the Cold War


Portrait of the Artist as a Captive Man


To Flee or Not to Flee


An Ever Brighter Star in the USSR


Signs of Thaw in the Gold War?



Things Fall Apart; the Left Cannot Hold



Fast Forward



Life in the Fast Lane


California to the New York Island


Looking Backward, Seeing Red



Fast and Loose


Disappointment and Despair


Fast in Pursuit



Fall and Decline


Notes


Bibliographic Note


Index