Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties

Name: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Murray Kempton
ISBN: 9781590170878

Murray Kempton

31/05/2004
Nyrb Classics

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Résumé

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.