1945. Paine, Thomas [1737-1809].
The Selected Work of Tom Paine
.
edited
by Howard Fast. xiii, 338 pp, 20.8 cm, "first edition", [black cloth, gold
lettering, eagle on front cover] (
see:
Who WasTom Paine?
). Duell, Sloan &
Pearce. New York. *
For C
ARL
V
AN
D
OREN
HARDLY was the American Revolution finished,
when the seeds
were sown for the Federalist Plot, which ultimately shook the
young nation to its very foundations — and almost destroyed it.
More will be said of this conspiracy later; now I would like to
recall one incident. It concerns a letter which John Adams, one of
the Federalist leaders, sent to the traitor, Timothy Pickering. In it,
Adams said contemptuously:
"There is not an idea in it (the Declaration of Independence) but
what had been hackneyed in Congress for two years before . . .
editions
1945.
Zoya.
Soviet film. English text by Howard Fast. Musical score by Shostakovich.
Played at
Stanley Theater, NYC May, 1945. ("5th Week! -- New Soviet Epic" from an ad in May 15, 1945
New Masses).
1947. Gorky, Maxim [1868-1936].
Mother
.
introduction by Howard Fast
(v-vii). 406 pp, Citadel Press. Secaucus, NJ. *
It was a long time ago that I first read
Mother, by Maxim Gorky,
sixteen or seventeen years; yet I still remember clearly the
richness of that experience, the taste of
a wine I had never known
before. This was a hot, warm, wonderful liquid for someone who
had mainly been swilling pap. My reading was not by plan or
method; without benefit of school or curriculum, I took anything
and everything that came my way, drunk with the magic of what I
had discovered in books. And then I came on
Mother, the first of
Gorky I had ever seen, and much of
what I had read before was
thin and tasteless by comparison. It was tapestry after cotton and
burlap, living, breathing people after cardboard cutouts...
editions
1947. Dreiser, Theodore [1871-1945].
The Best Short Stories of Theodore
Dreiser
.
edited with an introduction, by Howard Fast. 349 pp, 22 cm, 1st,
(Fast's introduction first appeared as an article in the Sept.3,1946 issue of
New Masses, entitled
Dreiser's Short Stories
. The introduction is a
slightly shorter, somewhat edited version) (
see also:
Joseph Griffin, 1987
).
The World Publishing Company. Cleveland; New York.
editions
,
translations
1952. Spencer, Harold.
In Danger: The Right to Speak for Peace.
preface by Howard
Fast. 16 pp, "If Steve Nelson and Others are Jailed for This, What Happens to Our Constitutional
Rights?". Committee to Defend the Pittsburgh Six.
1953. Marion, George.
Stop the Press! Being Volume 1 of the Next
Hundred Years
.
introduction by Howard Fast (p.7-9). 224 pp, pbk, Fairplay
Publishers. New York. *
For
a number of years now, in the face of innumerable difficulties,
George Marion has produced a series of books that mark him as
one of the major journalists of our time. Whether he is writing
about American expansion, the Soviet Union,the communist trial--
or, as he does in this latest of his books, the over-fattened and
corrupt monopoly press--he somehow manages to produce exciting
and
readable books, books jammed with facts, yet books that move
with all the pace and suspense of first-rate melodrama...
click for larger image
1953. Biberman, Edward.
The Best Untold
.
introduction by Howard
Fast. [64] pp, 28.5 cm, Blue Heron Press. New York. *
Edward Biberman's paintings are not only truly magnificent —
they are the story of the time in which we live; they are in the
deepest sense illustrations for the story of our lives, bold, grand
illustrations of the noblest passions and
agonies and dreams of
man...
(Easton Press
edition)
1961. Paine, Thomas [1737-1809].
The Rights of Man
.
introduction by
Howard Fast, illustrations by Lynd Ward. xvi, 269, [2] pp, 32 cm, col. ill.
(edition limited to 1500 copies, bound in 3/4 red cloth, mottled boards, in a
case). Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Stinehour
Press. Lunenburg, Vt.
Thomas PAINE, a man whose writings shook the world and whose
preachments on democracy have endured almost two centuries, was
born on January 29, 1737, in the town of Thetford in England. His
father, Quaker by religion and corset-maker by trade,
was poor and
not blessed by any great good fortune — but beyond these bare facts,
we know little of him or of Paine's mother, or indeed of what Paine's
life was like when he lived with his parents...
editions
1980. Taylor, Ruth Ellen, editor.
Legacy: The Orange County Story.
foreword by Howard Fast. 224 pp, 36 cm, Orange County Register's 75th
Anniversary publication.
1985. Leitner, Isabella, with Irving A. Leitner.
Saving the fragments: from
Auschwitz to New York
.
introduction by Howard Fast. xii, 131 pp, 22.4 cm,
New American Library. New York. ISBN: 0-453-00502-0. *
Both Isabella Leitner and I have spent all of our lives in the
twentieth century. Since I am somewhat older than Mrs. Leitner, my
life touches World War I, and it can be said that in all the history of
the planet Earth, there has been no period so mindlessly cruel as
this twentieth century, so devastating in its disregard
for human life
and for every symbol of morality that man has painfully acquired
through the ages. World Wars I and II took more lives than all the
wars preceding them in four thousand years of recorded history.
Such acts as the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, and the avalanche of death loosed in Vietnam, were
matched by lesser but no less monstrous acts—for example, the
hundred thousand or more put to death by Idi Amin, the forty
thousand victims of the death
squads in El Salvador, over a million
men, women, and children cut down by the lunatic death squads of
Indonesia, the endless murders of both body and soul in South
Africa—and currently the murderous religious mania of the
Ayatollah Khomeini...