Part of Our Time
Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Biography & Memoir, Historical
| Author: | Murray Kempton | ISBN: | 9781590175446 |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books | Publication: | October 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics | Language: | English |
| Author: | Murray Kempton |
| ISBN: | 9781590175446 |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Publication: | October 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
