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Being Red: A Memoir
by
Howard Fast
Being Red is an intimate memoir of an extraordinary time--the years Howard Fast, one of our nation's most popular authors, spent in the American Communist Party, and under the constant surveillance of the FBI. 8-page photo insert.
Paperback, 392 pages
Published
November 1st 1994
by M. E. Sharpe
(first published November 1st 1990)
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Howard Fast was a novelist and an American Communist who went to jail for contempt of Congress for refusing to name names. This memoir offers a good account of one leftist's life and why he was drawn to communism. He also helps keep in perspective how -- despite the hysteria of the time, and the eventual failure of the Soviet Union -- American Communism was no threat at all:
"If I were to seek some testament to leave to my grandchildren, providing that I had not lived a worthless...more
"If I were to seek some testament to leave to my grandchildren, providing that I had not lived a worthless...more
No matter how much fantasy and imagination involves in a novel, the reality’s part of “Being Red” by Howard Fost is also quite significance. Is this all about Fost’s memoir of his long membership in the Party during the early decades of 20th century in US? What ever, this could be kind of history of any Communist party in west societies. This is a narrative tale of the classical relationship between the utter poverty (what Fost has also experienced in his childhood, and the early loss of his mot...more
Howard Fast should receive continuing attention for his role in American literature and history.
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Howard Melvin Fast (11 November 1914, New York City - 12 March 2003, Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a Jewish American novelist and television writer, who wrote also under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.
His mother, Karen (née Miller), was a British Jewish immigrant and his father, BJohn Howard Fast, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. When his mother died in 1923 and h...more
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His mother, Karen (née Miller), was a British Jewish immigrant and his father, BJohn Howard Fast, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. When his mother died in 1923 and h...more
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