My grandfather was jailed in the Red Scare of the 1950s. Political writers could suffer a similar fate in a second Trump term.
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I never considered my grandfather to be a danger to the republic, but J. Edgar Hoover disagreed. When I knew my grandfather,...
45 months ago

In 1950, Joseph McCarthy tried to silence Howard Fast. It was a fool's errand. Called to testify before the House Un-American Activities...
59 months ago

The writer Howard Fast, who has died aged 88, was the last surviving American recipient of the Stalin peace prize.
260 months ago

The story “The General Zapped an Angel” was originally published in 1969. It's a story about the consequences of American militarism.
59 months ago

Telling the story of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, the 1960 film Spartacus was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers.
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My Glorious Brothers. by Howard Fast. New York; Little, Brown. 280 pp. $2.75. A historical novel can have two kinds of merit. Of these, the higher is that...
40 months ago

On April 19, 1775, a shot rang out on Lexington Green and the Revolutionary War began. Historical novelist Sally Gunning remembers the first...
199 months ago

A concert led by singer and actor Paul Robeson with Pete Seeger in support devolved into chaos when a racist mob attacked the show.
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Leslie Burr Howard is a two-time Olympic medalist, winner of the FEI World Cup Finals, Rider of the Year, and American Horse Show Association's Equestrian of...
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