Noticing Howard Fast

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Leftist personality Howard Fast has produced an uncommonly large body of work in sixty-odd years as a writer. His work encompasses radio and television plays as well as books of journalism and fiction, among others. Among his best-known works are 'Citizen Tom Paine' (1943), 'Spartacus' (1951) and 'April Morning' (1961). Howard Fast has also had an uncommonly active life. Through the decades, he has pursued careers as a political journalist and activist, a foreign correspondent and wartime bureaucrat, and a publisher and columnist. He was also imprisoned for his political views.

Criticism and interpretation, Fast, Howard

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Marxist literary resistance to the Cold War

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The persecution of members of the literary Left in the 1950s is widely considered to be one of the more shameful periods in American cultural life. In the decades since, scholars have quietly worked to restore to those writers who were persecuted their rightful place in the American literary life. Among those whose work deserve recognition, particularly in the area of antiracism literature, are Barbara Giles, Howard Fast, John O. Killens, Lloyd Brown and Martha Dodd. Other leftists worth mentioning are Philip Stevenson, Gordon Kahn and John Sanford.

Censorship, Racism in literature

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