Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the ThirtiesNew York Review of Books, 2012 M10 17 - 360 pages 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. |
Contents
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THE DRY BONES 3 7 | 39 |
ITS TIME TO GO 1 HEARD THEM SAY | 83 |
the social muse | 105 |
oer moor and fen | 151 |
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST | 181 |
THE REBEL GIRL | 211 |
GEORGE | 233 |
FATHER AND SONS | 261 |
THE SHADOW LINE | 300 |
AFTERWORD TO THE 1967 EDITION | 335 |
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