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Carolina Israelite - How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights (Paperback)
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Carolina Israelite - How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights (Paperback)
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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.
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