Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Kempton, Murray

 
9780679603108: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (Modern Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679603107 ISBN 13: 9780679603108
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

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A collection of portaits of America's communists, union leaders, and mobsters of the 1930s.

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hed in 1955, Part of Our Time consists of ten incomparable "novellas" that profile individuals whose lives were transformed by the radical movements of the thirties. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton writes of people who "shared at one time or another the conviction that the most important thing in life was a remorseless effort to throw down the society which had raised and alienated most of them." Included are portraits of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Walter Reu-ther, Lee Pressman, Paul Robeson, Edmund Wilson, and James T. Farrell; the writers of the Hollywood left; as well as many now-forgotten labor leaders, politicians, and mobsters--all of whom were caught up in what the author calls "the myth of the thirties."
    "Part of Our Time is a striking piece of work," said The New Yorker. "Kempton is a journalist of formidable talent and versatility. He can be serious, he can be funny, he can be evocative. E

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hed in 1955, Part of Our Time consists of ten incomparable "novellas" that profile individuals whose lives were transformed by the radical movements of the thirties. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton writes of people who "shared at one time or another the conviction that the most important thing in life was a remorseless effort to throw down the society which had raised and alienated most of them." Included are portraits of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Walter Reu-ther, Lee Pressman, Paul Robeson, Edmund Wilson, and James T. Farrell; the writers of the Hollywood left; as well as many now-forgotten labor leaders, politicians, and mobsters--all of whom were caught up in what the author calls "the myth of the thirties."
"Part of Our Time is a striking piece of work," said The New Yorker. "Kempton is a journalist of formidable talent and versatility. He can be serious, he can be funny, he can be evocative. E

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679603107
ISBN 13 
9780679603108
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
425
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