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Howard Fast's American Revolution
Howard Fast’s American Revolution 85 Howard Fast’s American Revolution Neil L. York Howard Fast wanted to set the record straight about the American Revolution. He spent over a half century trying, but with what success it is hard to say. As a novelist, he used fiction to correct what he feared the reading public erroneously accepted as fact. “The more I studied the American Revolution,” he explained to me in 2000, “the more I realized that most of what has been written about it are lies.”1 A year later he was no less emphatic. Most history—as academic historians write it—is a lie, he repeated, and what those historians have written about the revolution “is the biggest lie of all.”2 An academic historian by trade, I was neither surprised nor offended by his view and could at least take solace that I was not a literary critic. “A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he can’t do it,” Fast once huffed. As if that characterization were not dismissive enough, he added that “critics are very often failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.”3 When commenting on academic historians and literary critics, Fast stayed true to form: passionately irascible when he felt that is what it took to make his point. The reaction of most academic historians and literary critics has been to either belittle Fast as an indiscriminately prolific hack or ignore him altogether.4 It is a response at once peevish and parochial: peevish, because Fast was once widely read, with perhaps one hundred million copies of his books translated into a dozen languages floating around the world—more than virtually any academic historian or literary critic can claim; and parochial, because Fast’s writings tell 0026-3079/2009/5003/4-085$2.50/0 American Studies, 50:3/4 (Fall/Winter 2009): 85-106 85 86 Neil L. -
Howard Fastfilmography
Howard FastFilmography http://www.fandango.com/ Born: November 11, 1914 Occupation: Screenwriter, Book Author • Sort By: Title Release Date Masters of Science Fiction: The Awakening Crew: Short Story Author 2007 Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Elisabeth Röhm Spartacus Crew: Book Author 2004 Actors: Goran Visnjic, Alan Bates, Angus MacFadyen, Rhona Mitra, Ian McNeice Synopsis: This television miniseries tells the familiar story of Spartacus, played in this endeavor by ER regular Goran Visnjic. Spartacus, who was enslaved by the Romans after they murdered his father, leads fellow slaves in an attempt to overthrow the repressive Roman Empire. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More The Crossing Crew: Screenwriter 1999 Actors: Jeff Daniels Synopsis: Adapted by screenwriter Howard Fast from his own fact-based novel, this historical drama tells the story of one of the most unexpected triumphs of the American Revolutionary War. In December 1776, the armies of General George Washington (Jeff Daniels) are near the point of collapse; short on Read More Spartacus (Australian Ballet) Crew: Book Author 1990 Actors: Steven Heathcote, Lisa Pavane, Greg Horsman, Adam Marchant, Robert Marshall Synopsis: Based - as was the 1960 Stanley Kubrick epic of the same name - on Howard Fast's historical novel about the famous 1st century B.C. slave who led a massive revolt against tyrannical Roman oppressors, László Seregi's ballet Spartacus is mounted by The Australian Ballet at Melbourne's Arts Centre in Read More April Morning Crew: Book Author 1988 Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich, Chad Lowe, Susan Blakely, Meredith Salenger Synopsis: The morning invoked by the title of this made-for-TV drama is April 19, 1775. -
Joseph Plumb Martin and the American Imagination
© 2011 PETER MANOS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED JOSEPH PLUMB MARTIN AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION A Dissertation Presented to The Graduate Faculty of The University of Akron In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Peter Manos December, 2011 JOSEPH PLUMB MARTIN AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION Peter Manos Dissertation Approved: Accepted: _____________________________ ________________________________ Advisor Department Chair Dr. Elizabeth Mancke Dr. Michael Sheng _____________________________ ________________________________ Co-Advisor/ Committee Member Dean of the College Dr. Walter Hixson Dr. Chand Midha ______________________________ ________________________________ Committee Member Dean of the Graduate School Dr. Kevin Kern Dr. George Newkome _____________________________ ________________________________ Committee Member Date Dr. Kevin Adams _____________________________ Committee Member Dr. Patrick Chura ii ABSTRACT The personal narrative of ordinary Continental Army private Joseph Plumb Martin has long provided corroborating evidence for battlefield accounts of the American Revolution and has never been out of print, albeit usually in abridged form, since its discovery in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, the memoir was written in 1830, fifty years after the events Martin narrated. Its romantic literary style, its populist sensibility, its racism, its empiricism, all reflect nineteenth-century values. The memoir has value in epitomizing the solidification of American nationalism and the populist rhetoric that became associated with it. Chapter one attempts to understand Martin’s rhetoric in terms of the literary influences on his writing, which include some works of the nineteenth century, but most from earlier times. Particularly evident is a modeling of behavior and outlook on the popular “Jonathan” character emerging from the works of post-Revolutionary American playwright Royall Tyler and others coupled with the romantic low-born outdoorsmen protagonists of nineteenth century rural poet Robert Bloomfield. -
Howard Fast Papers Ms
Howard Fast papers Ms. Coll. 1205 Finding aid prepared by John F. Anderies. Last updated on April 14, 2017. University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts 2016 May 16 Howard Fast papers Table of Contents Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3 Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................4 Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 9 Administrative Information......................................................................................................................... 11 Related Materials......................................................................................................................................... 12 Controlled Access Headings........................................................................................................................13 Collection Inventory.................................................................................................................................... 15 Correspondence......................................................................................................................................15 Journals, appointment books, address books, financials.......................................................................43