num_pages: 360
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.
language: English
title: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
titlecomplete: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
genres: Biography, American, Politics, Nonfiction, Essays, Classics, American History, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 85
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -441820800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: NY Review of Books Classics