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Item Details
Title:
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JUMPING THE LINE
THE ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN RADICAL |
By: |
William Herrick, Paul Berman |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£22.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0299157903 |
ISBN 13: |
9780299157906 |
Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 April, 1998 |
Series: |
Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography |
Pages: |
260 |
Description: |
An account of time served in the great battles of the 20th century - for workers' rights, against fascism, communism, and racism. William Herrick chronicles his adventures and misadventures from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to organizing African-American sharecroppers in Georgia. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Illustrations: |
24 illustrations |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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