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Spartacus by Howard Fast
Spartacus by Howard Fast




Spartacus by Howard Fast

This essay explains in detail the purpose of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. House and battles the Ku Klux Klan and other racist organizations to keep the land that they had tended all their lives.Ĭontribution to constitutionalism įast is the author of the prominent "Why the Fifth Amendment?" essay.

Spartacus by Howard Fast

The novel Freedom Road is based on a true story and was made into a miniseries of the same name starring Muhammad Ali, who, in a rare acting role, played Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870s South Carolina who is elected to the U.S. Always interested in American history, Fast also wrote The Last Frontier (about the Cheyenne Indians' attempt to return to their native land, and which inspired the 1964 movie Cheyenne Autumn) and Freedom Road (about the lives of former slaves during Reconstruction).

Spartacus by Howard Fast Spartacus by Howard Fast

His first popular work was Citizen Tom Paine, a fictional account of the life of Thomas Paine. While hitchhiking and riding railroads around the country to find odd jobs, he wrote his first novel, Two Valleys, published in 1933 when he was 18. Howard credited his early voracious reading to a part-time job in the New York Public Library.įast began writing at an early age. When his mother died in 1923 and his father became unemployed, Howard's youngest brother, Julius, went to live with relatives, while he and his older brother, Jerome, sold newspapers. His mother, Ida (née Miller), was a British Jewish immigrant, and his father, Barney Fast, was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who shortened his name from Fastovsky upon arrival in America. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.įast was born in New York City. Howard Melvin Fast (Novem– March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. The Last Frontier, Spartacus, April Morningīette Cohen (1937–1994 her death 2 children)






Spartacus by Howard Fast