Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national...
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SKU: 9781469645643
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Author: Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
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Language: English
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Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights by Hartnett, Kimberly Marlowe

Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights

Dhs. 147.15

Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights

Dhs. 147.15
Author: Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller 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. During World War II, the cigar-smoking, bourbon-loving raconteur landed in Charlotte, North Carolina, and founded the Carolina Israelite newspaper, which was published into the 1960s. Golden's writings on race relations and equal rights attracted a huge popular readership. Golden used his celebrity to editorialize for civil rights as the momentous story unfolded. He charmed his way into friendships and lively correspondence with Carl Sandburg, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Kennedy, and Billy Graham, among other notable Americans, and he appeared on the Tonight Show as well as other national television programs. Hartnett's spirited chronicle captures Golden's message of social inclusion for a new audience today.



Author: Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.45h x 7.76w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781469645643

About the Author
Hartnett, Kimberly Marlowe: - Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett is a writer living in New Hampshire. She worked as a journalist for more than thirty years in New England and the Pacific Northwest.

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