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  • THE BRIDGE BUILDER'S STORY: A NOVEL
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    THE BRIDGE BUILDER'S STORY: A NOVEL
    HOWARD FAST
    Comparativists evaluate democratization by looking at regimes in the transition and consolidation phases of democracy without considering the essence of democracy. This book argues the need to consider democracy as a combination of rights and virtues, and that problems of democraticization are those of balance. ...

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  • WAR AND PEACE
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    WAR AND PEACE
    HOWARD FAST
    In more than 100 essays, written over a three-year period for the "New York Observer", Howard Fast looks with horror at the official violence inflicted on Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama and Iraq and the unofficial violence that is taking place in the cities of the United States. In "War and Peace", Fast summons us to face the wars and the social disintegration that deg...

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  • BEING RED: A MEMOIR
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    BEING RED: A MEMOIR
    HOWARD FAST
    This edition brings the story of 20th-century Southern politics up to the present day and the virtual triumph of Southern Republicanism. It considers the changes in party politics, leadership, civil rights and black participation in Southern politics. ...

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  • THE LAST FRONTIER
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    THE LAST FRONTIER
    HOWARD FAST
    Originally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. Some 300 Indians, led by Little Wolf, fought against General Crook and 10,000 troops, with only 60 finally making it through to freedom. Fast extensively researched t...

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  • SPARTACUS
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    SPARTACUS
    HOWARD FAST
    The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture. ...

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  • THE UNVANQUISHED
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    THE UNVANQUISHED
    HOWARD FAST
    Originally published in 1942, The Unvanquished is the story of the Continental Army and George Washington in the desperate early months when the American Revolution faced defeat and disintegration. The book begins with the retreat across Manhattan's East River that saved the Continental Army after the Battle of Long Island. It ends with Washington's recrossing of the Delaware i...

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  • FREEDOM ROAD
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    FREEDOM ROAD
    HOWARD FAST / ERIC FONER / W. E. B. DUBOIS
    "Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master". -- Chicago Daily News ...

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  • THE HESSIAN
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    THE HESSIAN
    HOWARD FAST
    "Fast is always a wonderful storyteller, and the story is a good one. ... Entertaining and memorable". -- Library Journal ...

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  • AGRIPPA'S DAUGHTER
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    AGRIPPA'S DAUGHTER
    HOWARD FAST
    An epic novel of Berenice, Queen of Israel—life, love, and war in the shadow of the Roman Empire—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus.   Throughout her rule in the first century AD, Queen Berenice is idolized by some, and hated by others. Though her fiery red hair makes her instantly recognizable, it is her mysterious charm and steely will that make her unfor...

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  • THE ART OF ZEN MEDITATION
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    THE ART OF ZEN MEDITATION
    HOWARD FAST
    Bestselling author Howard Fast's straightforward introduction to Zen meditation Howard Fast began to formally practice Zen meditation after turning away from communism in 1956. The Art of Zen Meditation, originally published by the antiwar political collective Peace Press in 1977, is the fruit of Fast's study: a brief and instructive history of Zen Buddhism and its tenets, writ...

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  • THE CONFESSION OF JOE CULLEN
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    THE CONFESSION OF JOE CULLEN
    HOWARD FAST
    A New York detective's investigation of a Catholic priest's murder leads him to a shocking drug plot that reaches the highest seats of American power Detective Mel Freedman's life changes forever the day Joe Cullen walks into his New York City office to confess to murder. Cullen, a pilot and Vietnam veteran, has come to admit his guilt in the murder of an American priest, throw...

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  • THE CROSSING
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    THE CROSSING
    HOWARD FAST
    A novel about George Washington's trip across the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus.   Immortalized on canvas by Emanuel Leutze, Washington's journey across the Delaware River is one of the most celebrated moments in American history. But the true story of the crossing, and of what came after, is often lost in the ...

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  • THE DINNER PARTY
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    THE DINNER PARTY
    HOWARD FAST
    Howard Fast's 1987 New York Times bestseller, a tight political drama that remains just as relevant today as when it was first written Fast's 1987 novel The Dinner Party confronts issues including American intervention in Latin America and the AIDS epidemic. Often compared to a play, The Dinner Party takes place during a single day, culminating in a party hosted by Richard Crom...

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  • THE GENERAL ZAPPED AN ANGEL
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    THE GENERAL ZAPPED AN ANGEL
    HOWARD FAST
    " The General Zapped an Angel was written for fun, and offers me a chance to smile at the absurdity of human existence. Therefore, these stories of fantasy and science fiction are among the most serious writing I have done." —Howard Fast Nearly forty years after the publication of his first story, "The Wrath of Purple," in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Howard Fa...

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  • THE IMMIGRANT'S DAUGHTER
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    THE IMMIGRANT'S DAUGHTER
    HOWARD FAST
    The fifth installment of Fast's bestselling Immigrants series , continuing the story of one of his most beloved characters, Barbara Lavette. Howard Fast's immensely popular Immigrants saga spanned six novels and more than a century of the Lavette family history. The series was considered one of the crowning achievements of his long career. This New York Times bestseller is the ...

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  • GREENWICH
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    GREENWICH
    HOWARD FAST
    Bestselling author Howard Fast's final novel—a page-turning tale of intrigue, power, and betrayal set in one of America's wealthiest suburbs Greenwich follows a diverse cast of characters in one of the country's most affluent towns: Greenwich, Connecticut. When evidence emerges that Richard Castle, a wealthy ex-government official, approved the 1980 killings of Jesuit priests a...

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  • THE HUNTER AND THE TRAP
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    THE HUNTER AND THE TRAP
    HOWARD FAST
    Two tales of speculative fiction from bestselling author Howard Fast The Hunter and The Trap presents two thrilling and suspenseful stories by Howard Fast, one of the most prolific authors of the twentieth century. In "The Hunter," celebrated but down-on-his-luck novelist Andrew Bell returns to New York from an African safari only to find himself the prey in someone else's big ...

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  • THE JEWS
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    THE JEWS
    HOWARD FAST
    The " epic and stirring story" of 4,000 years of Judaism—told by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author ( Jewish Quarterly). From their nomadic beginnings and the rise of Moses to the kings David and Solomon through the Diaspora and the unthinkable horror of the Holocaust—and culminating in the founding of the state of Israel—this is the sweeping tale of the Jews. Howard Fast, ...

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  • AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
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    AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
    HOWARD FAST
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Immigrant: The conclusion to the Lavette family saga is "addictive as candy" and "genuinely touching" ( Publishers Weekly).   In the sixth and final installment of the Immigrants saga, Fast revisits the charismatic Barbara Lavette. In this emotional farewell, Barbara, the rock and matriarch of her family, marries a Unitarian pri...

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  • LITERATURE AND REALITY
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    LITERATURE AND REALITY
    HOWARD FAST
    Howard Fast's controversial essay on the proper role of literature, offering insight into his life and works In this 1950 essay, Howard Fast argues that all writers have a duty to reflect the truth of the world in their works, particularly regarding social justice. Fast's treatise on literary criticism allows for a fuller understanding of his early novels, in which his politica...

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  • THE LEGACY
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    THE LEGACY
    HOWARD FAST
    The New York Times–bestselling Lavette family saga from the author of Spartacus continues through the turmoil of Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement. The fourth installment of the Immigrants saga follows Barbara Lavette, the daughter of a self-made Italian immigrant, through the turmoil of the 1960s, including the Vietnam War, the feminist and civil rights movements, and Isra...

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  • MAX
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    MAX
    HOWARD FAST
    The New York Times–bestselling novel of one man's journey from New York's slums to become one of America's first film moguls—from the author of Spartacus.   Max tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry's beginnings near the turn of the twentieth century. When he was twelve, Max's father died, leaving him to scrape out a living in Manhattan's L...

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  • PEEKSKILL USA
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    PEEKSKILL USA
    HOWARD FAST
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author's firsthand account of the civil rights benefit concert attacked by a violent mob in upstate New York.   In 1949, author Howard Fast found himself in the middle of a violent and terrifying anticommunist riot in Peekskill, New York. Fast was the master of ceremonies at a civil rights benefit concert featuring Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, an...

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  • THE OUTSIDER
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    THE OUTSIDER
    HOWARD FAST
    The New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus evokes the postwar Jewish-American experience through the story of a compassionate but conflicted rabbi.   After witnessing the inhumanity and devastating suffering of Dachau, chaplain David Hartman returns to post–World War II America seeking meaning and purpose. As a young rabbi, he accepts a post in the sleepy, WASPy Connect...

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  • THE PLEDGE
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    THE PLEDGE
    HOWARD FAST
    A foreign correspondent is targeted by the US government after aligning with the Communist Party for a controversial story In what many consider his most autobiographical novel, bestselling author Howard Fast revisits the McCarthy-era anticommunist witch hunts he endured during his years as a member of the Communist Party. In The Pledge, Bruce Bacon, a war correspondent station...

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  • POWER
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    POWER
    HOWARD FAST
    Howard Fast's thrilling story of Benjamin Holt, mineworker and hero of the modern labor movement Benjamin R. Holt, the tough-as-nails leader of the International Miners Union, has a grand and controversial plan: to unite American coal miners in a major strike. His goal is not to advance any political cause, but simply to grab as much power as he can for the miners, and by any m...

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  • REDEMPTION
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    REDEMPTION
    HOWARD FAST
    When the love of his life is accused of murder, a university professor will stop at nothing to prove her innocence On a late night drive home, Ike Goldman, a retired Columbia University law professor, saves a woman from killing herself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. The woman's name is Elizabeth Hopper, and Ike, a widower, unexpectedly finds himself falling in lov...

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  • SPAIN AND PEACE
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    SPAIN AND PEACE
    HOWARD FAST
    Fast's powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spain's fight for freedom from governmental oppression Howard Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Fast supported a hospital for Popular Front forces, and in 1950 he was sentenced to three months in jail for refu...

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  • STRANGE YESTERDAY
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    STRANGE YESTERDAY
    HOWARD FAST
    Fast's epic novel, about one man's family tree stretching through history from the Revolutionary War, portrays the best and worst of the American experiment   Broken and sick, a young Revolutionary War soldier from New York is taken in by an innkeeper's family and nursed to health. The soldier, John Preswick, falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter, even as his wife Inez wa...

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  • TIME AND THE RIDDLE
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    TIME AND THE RIDDLE
    HOWARD FAST
    A collection of Fast's best short fiction, from science fiction and fantasy to philosophy and suspense This collection of short stories encompasses twenty years of work by Howard Fast, including some of his best-known and most treasured tales. Not merely fantasy or science fiction, these "Zen stories" explore the world's mysterious and unanswerable questions, big and small, and...

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