Part of our time
Subtitle: some ruins and monuments of the thirties
By: Murray Kempton.
Edition: Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Subversive activities -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Communists -- United States -- Biography.; Radicals -- United States -- Biography.; Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Nineteen thirties.; United States -- History -- 1933-1945.; United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Publisher description: First published in 1955, Part of Our Time consists of ten incomparable "novellas" that profile individuals whose lives were transformed by the radical movements of the thirties. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton writes of people who "shared at one time or another the conviction that the most important thing in life was a remorseless effort to throw down the society which had raised and alienated most of them." Included are portraits of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Walter Reuther, Lee Pressman, Paul Robeson, Edmund Wilson, and James T. Farrell; the writers of the Hollywood left; as well as many now-forgotten labor leaders, politicians, and mobsters--all of whom were caught up in what the author calls "the myth of the thirties."
Notes: Originally published: Simon & Schuster, 1955.