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Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties



Publication Date: May 31, 2004
Pages: 456
Introduction by David Remnick.
Originally published in 1955.

Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the men and women who embraced, grappled with, and in many cases were destroyed by the myth of revolution. What he calls the “ruins and monuments of the Thirties” include Paul Robeson, Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers, the Hollywood Ten, the rebel women Elizabeth Bentley and Mary Heaton Vorse, and the labor leaders Walter Reuther and Joe Curran.

I wouldn't have gone with that peanut butter color for the text box....you need something bright there.

I don't have this one, but I think that cover would look nicer in hand than it does on the screen.