Howard Fast Life and Literature in the Left Lane 1st edition by Gerald Sorin ISBN 0253007275 978-0253007278

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ISBN 10: 0253007275
ISBN 13: 978-0253007278
Author: Gerald Sorin

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.

Howard Fast Life and Literature in the Left Lane 1st Table of contents:

1 Paradise Postponed

Publish or Perish

Politics Delayed

2 The War against Fascism

The Fatal Embrace

The Reds and the Blacks

3 The Life of the Party

Innocent Abroad

The Road Not Taken

The Politics of Literature

4 Cold War, Hot Seat

The Discouraged American

Down and Out in the USA

5 Banned, Barred, and Besieged

It Can’t Happen Here

War and Peace

6 The Myopia of American Communism

Foley Square Follies

Waltzing at the Waldorf

April in Paris

The Poison of Peekskill

7 Literature and Reality

Howard Fast: Prisoner

Great Expectations

8 Free! But Not at Last

9 Trials and Tribulations

Despair, Distraction, and Defeat

The Push and Pull of Politics

Confrontations Left and Right

10 McCarthyism, Stalinism, and the World according to Fast

11 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?

12 Things Fall Apart; the Left Cannot Hold

13 Fast Forward

14 Life in the Fast Lane

California to the New York Island

Looking Backward, Seeing Red

15 Fast and Loose

Disappointment and Despair

Fast in Pursuit

16 Fall and Decline

Notes

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