Carolina Israelite
How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1902-1981), 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Putting down roots in the goldeneh medina -- Heading South -- A new life and a new cause in Dixie -- Brown, flames, and fame -- Scandal and resurrection -- Ghosts and great men -- Grief, hope, and black power -- The real iron curtain -- Epilogue: Only in America.
Subjects:
Golden, Harry, 1902-1981.
Carolina Israelite.
Jewish journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Jews -- North Carolina -- Biography.
Newspaper editors -- North Carolina -- Biography.
North Carolina -- Biography.
Golden, Harry, 1902-1981.
Carolina Israelite.
Jewish journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Jews -- North Carolina -- Biography.
Newspaper editors -- North Carolina -- Biography.
North Carolina -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781469621036
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Golden, Harry | Northeast Indoors | Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341) and index.