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- catalog abstract "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."".
- catalog contributor b11082981.
- catalog coverage "United States History 1919-1933.".
- catalog coverage "United States History 1933-1945.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog 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."".
- catalog description "The sheltered life : the partnership of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers -- The dry bones : Gardner Jackson and Lee Pressman -- "It's time to go, I heard them say ..." : Joe Curran and his shipmates -- The social muse -- O'er moor and fen : J.B. Matthews and the multiple Revelation -- The day of the locust : The Workers' Theatre goes to Hollywood -- The rebel girl : Mary Heaton Vorse, Elizabeth Bentley, and Anne Moos Remington -- George : Paul Robeson and the Pullman porters -- Father and sons : the Reuther boys -- The shadow line.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 425 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Part of our time.".
- catalog identifier "0679603107 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Part of our time.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Modern Library,".
- catalog relation "Part of our time.".
- catalog spatial "United States History 1919-1933.".
- catalog spatial "United States History 1933-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.917 21".
- catalog subject "Communists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "E743.5 .K4 1998".
- catalog subject "Labor unions United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Nineteen thirties.".
- catalog subject "Radicals United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Subversive activities United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The sheltered life : the partnership of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers -- The dry bones : Gardner Jackson and Lee Pressman -- "It's time to go, I heard them say ..." : Joe Curran and his shipmates -- The social muse -- O'er moor and fen : J.B. Matthews and the multiple Revelation -- The day of the locust : The Workers' Theatre goes to Hollywood -- The rebel girl : Mary Heaton Vorse, Elizabeth Bentley, and Anne Moos Remington -- George : Paul Robeson and the Pullman porters -- Father and sons : the Reuther boys -- The shadow line.".
- catalog title "Part of our time : some ruins and monuments of the thirties / Murray Kempton.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".