Part of Our Time
Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
1st Edition
Published on 17. October 2012
360 pages
978-1-59017-544-6 (ISBN)
Description
Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the men and women who embraced, grappled with, and in many cases were destroyed by the myth of revolution. What he calls the "ruins and monuments of the Thirties" include Paul Robeson, Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers, the Hollywood Ten, the rebel women Elizabeth Bentley and Mary Heaton Vorse, and the labor leaders Walter Reuther and Joe Curran.
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Person
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.
David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.
Content
- Intro
- Biographical Notes
- Copyright and More Information
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART OF OUR TIME
- A PRELUDE
- 1 THE SHELTERED LIFE
- 2 THE DRY BONES
- 3 "IT'S TIME TO GO, I HEARD THEM SAY ..."
- 4 THE SOCIAL MUSE
- 5 O'ER MOOR AND FEN
- 6 THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
- 7 THE REBEL GIRL
- 8 GEORGE
- 9 FATHER AND SONS
- 10 THE SHADOW LINE
- AFTERWORD TO THE 1967 EDITION
