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Author Herrick, William, 1915-2004

Title Jumping the line : the adventures and misadventures of an American radical / William Herrick ; with an introduction by Paul Berman
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 283 pages) : illustrations
Series Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
Wisconsin studies in American autobiography.
Summary An eye-opening account of time served in the great battles of our century - for workers' rights, against Fascism, Communism, and racism - Jumping the Line is the life story of an American original. William Herrick relates his adventures and misadventures on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, in (and very much out of) the Communist Party, driving a tractor on a communal farm in Michigan, jumping the line as a hobo, organizing African American sharecroppers in Georgia, at work with Orson Welles, and immersed in his own writing. When Paul Berman interviewed Herrick in the Village Voice in 1986, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, Herrick's remarks so incensed other veterans of the Abraham Lincoln battalion that they picketed the paper. What William Herrick has to say doesn't always go down easily. But for those who like the truth, with a dash of wit and a healthy dose of history, it can be exhilarating
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Subject Herrick, William, 1915-2004
SUBJECT Herrick, William, 1915-2004 fast
Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Radicals -- United States -- Biography
Radicalism in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Novelists, American
Radicalism
Radicalism in literature
Radicals
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299157937
0299157938
0585136211
9780585136219