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Informationen zum Autor Gerald Sorin Klappentext Recounting the story of his private and public life with its adventure and risk, love and pain, struggle, failure, and success, Sorin 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Beseiged 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 To Flee or not to Flee An Even Brighter Star in the USSR Signs of Thaw in the Cold War? 12 Things Fall Apart; the Left Doesn't 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 Index ...
