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Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
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Description for Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
Hardcover. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; JFSR1; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 676.
This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national bestseller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.
After recounting Golden's childhood on New York's Lower East Side, Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett points to his stint in prison as a young man, after a widely publicized conviction for investment fraud during the Great Depression, as the root of his empathy for the underdog in any story. ... Read more
This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national bestseller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.
After recounting Golden's childhood on New York's Lower East Side, Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett points to his stint in prison as a young man, after a widely publicized conviction for investment fraud during the Great Depression, as the root of his empathy for the underdog in any story. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469621036
SKU
V9781469621036
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About Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett is a writer living in Portland, Oregon, USA. She worked as a journalist for more than thirty years in New England and the Pacific Northwest.
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