{"product_id":"howard-fast-life-and-literature-in-the-left-lane-the-modern-jewish-experience-9780253007278","title":"Howard Fast Life and Literature in the Left Lane","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminates 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFame-hungry, wealth-obsessed, with a voracious appetite for women, bestselling author Howard Fast rose from the hardscrabble streets of his 1920s New York childhood to become a popular author and, perhaps more improbably, 'the public face of the Communist Party in America.' In Sorin's intriguing if dense new biography, Fast's life becomes an excellent prism through which to view the history of leftist activity in the years straddling WWII, along with the anticommunism hysteria of the 1940s and '50s. . . . A notable study of a thorny protagonist whose life has much to reveal about the times in which he lived and about the interplay of political belief, personal identity, art, and ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSorin . . . has written a heavily researched critical biography of Fast. . . The volume's strength is its explication and analysis of the complex social and political context of Fast's activism and creative work. . . . Sorin's lengthy critique of Fast's adherence to Communism long after most American writers and intellectuals had abandoned the party, and his shameful public silence on Stalin's crimes and Soviet anti-Semitism, are of significant import. . . . Recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intriguing biography, not least for its examination of how Fast interwove his political activism, his Jewishness and his art during the heyday of McCarthyism. Recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Recorder (Melbourne) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Paradise Postponed\u003cbr\u003e Publish or Perish\u003cbr\u003e Politics Delayed\u003cbr\u003e2 The War Against Fascism\u003cbr\u003e The Fatal Embrace\u003cbr\u003e The Reds and the Blacks\u003cbr\u003e3 The Life of the Party\u003cbr\u003e Innocent Abroad\u003cbr\u003e The Road Not Taken\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Literature\u003cbr\u003e4 Cold War, Hot Seat\u003cbr\u003e The Discouraged American\u003cbr\u003e Down and Out in the USA\u003cbr\u003e5 Banned, Barred, and Beseiged\u003cbr\u003e It Can't Happen Here\u003cbr\u003e War and Peace\u003cbr\u003e6 The Myopia of American Communism\u003cbr\u003e Foley Square Follies\u003cbr\u003e Waltzing at the Waldorf\u003cbr\u003e April in Paris\u003cbr\u003e The Poison of Peekskill\u003cbr\u003e7 Literature and Reality\u003cbr\u003e Howard Fast: Prisoner\u003cbr\u003e Great Expectations\u003cbr\u003e8 Free! But Not at Last\u003cbr\u003e9 Trials and Tribulations\u003cbr\u003e Despair, Distraction, and Defeat\u003cbr\u003e The Push and Pull of Politics\u003cbr\u003e Confrontations Left and Right\u003cbr\u003e10 McCarthyism, Stalinism, and the World according to Fast\u003cbr\u003e11 Culture and the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e To Flee or not to Flee\u003cbr\u003e An Even Brighter Star in the USSR\u003cbr\u003e Signs of Thaw in the Cold War?\u003cbr\u003e12 Things Fall Apart; the Left Doesn't Hold\u003cbr\u003e13 Fast Forward\u003cbr\u003e14 Life in the Fast Lane\u003cbr\u003e California to the New York Island\u003cbr\u003e Looking Backward, Seeing Red\u003cbr\u003e15 Fast and Loose\u003cbr\u003e Disappointment and Despair\u003cbr\u003e Fast in Pursuit\u003cbr\u003e16 Fall and Decline\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MH - Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577263198551,"sku":"9780253007278","price":30.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253007278.jpg?v=1746094592","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/howard-fast-life-and-literature-in-the-left-lane-the-modern-jewish-experience-9780253007278","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}