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Harry Golden (1902–1981)

Forfatter af Only in America

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Værker af Harry Golden

Only in America (1958) 231 eksemplarer
For 2 Cents Plain (1943) 118 eksemplarer
Carl Sandburg (1600) 99 eksemplarer
Enjoy, Enjoy! (1942) 55 eksemplarer
Travels through Jewish America, (1973) 49 eksemplarer
The right time; an autobiography (1936) 42 eksemplarer
The Israelis; portrait of a people (1971) 39 eksemplarer
Mr. Kennedy and the Negroes (1964) 38 eksemplarer
You're Entitle' (1962) 37 eksemplarer
Forgotten Pioneer (1963) 35 eksemplarer
Our Southern landsman (1974) 29 eksemplarer
A Little Girl is Dead (1965) 27 eksemplarer

Associated Works

A Bintel Brief : Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward (1971) — Forord, nogle udgaver; Forord — 264 eksemplarer
The Spirit of the Ghetto (1828) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver122 eksemplarer
Think Small (1965) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
Tales from the Wise Men of Israel (1962) — Introduktion — 22 eksemplarer
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Golden, Harry
Fødselsdato
1902-05-06
Dødsdag
1981-10-02
Køn
male
Nationalitet
Austria-Hungary
USA
Fødested
Mikulintsy, Austria-Hungary
Bopæl
New York, New York, USA
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Uddannelse
City College of New York
Erhverv
stockbroker
journalist
humorist
Biographer
essayist
lecturer
Organisationer
The Charlotte Observer
The Carolina Israelite
Kort biografi
Herschel Goldhirsch was born in a small a village in eastern Galicia, then part of the Austria-Hungary Empire. His father and older brother travelled to Canada and the USA and eventually brought the rest of the family to New York City in 1905. Immigration officials at Ellis Island changed the family surname to Goldhurst. He grew up on the Lower East Side, attended public school and City College of New York. After graduation, he worked at numerous jobs, including in the fur business and as a stockbroker. He went to jail from 1929-1932 for stock fraud. As the Nazi menace in Europe grew in the 1930s, he acquired a deep interest and appreciation for Jewish history and culture. In 1941, he left New York and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he changed his name to Harry Golden. He joined the staff of the Charlotte Labor Journal and the Charlotte Observer before starting his own newspaper, The Carolina Israelite, in October 1942. Golden wrote all of it and issued it whenever he was ready. It became an influential publication in the South and in major cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. The Carolina Israelite was a forum for Harry Golden's liberal social and political views, most controversially civil rights and union labor. Harry Golden collected some of his Carolina Israelite essays and published them as a book, Only in America, in 1958. It became a success seller and made him a nationally known writer and humorist. He was a frequent guest on national television programs and a contributor to journals such as The Nation, Commentary, and Life Magazine, and a popular lecturer around the country. He published a bestselling biography of his friend Carl Sandburg in 1961.

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Stated Third Printing. Not price-clipped ($4.00 price intact). Published by World Publishing, 1960. Octavo. Green cloth boards stamped in gold with yellow topstain. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to page ends and light spotting to endpapers. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear. Two one-inch tears to spine ends. A very good copy of this collection of short stories, anecdotes, and observations. 315 pages.
 
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RedeemedRareBooks | Mar 23, 2024 |
humor, Americana, Jews
 
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MLLathrop | 3 andre anmeldelser | Oct 5, 2014 |
Not so much a biography as a warm tribute to my favorite poet, Carl Sandburg, by one of his closest friends, Harry Golden, another writer, publisher and essayist who is a kindred spirit to Sandburg and I respect deeply. There were some surprises here. For example, in 1940 the Republican party expressed considerable interest in convincing Sandburg, a consummate humanitarian and union activist, to run for the presidency against FDR. He declined. There is little organization to the book, it being more or less a stream-of-consciousness collection of anecdotes as they popped into Golden's head, which no doubt suited writer and subject equally. I hadn't known that Sandburg and Robert Frost (another favorite poet) were close friends and mutual admirers, although I would have probably preferred the company of the generously congenial Sandburg to the frequently flinty Frost. Sandburg was the first private citizen to address both houses of Congress. He was at times a hobo, a poet, a historian, a musician and preserver of America's songs, a social activist, and a man who felt there was good in all men. At the moment, having just finished this homage of a biography, none come to mind whom I hold in higher esteem than both subject and writer here.… (mere)
 
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burnit99 | Oct 8, 2012 |
Midcentury autobiography of Jewish Southerner, publisher of daily newspaper.
 
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Folkshul | 3 andre anmeldelser | Jan 15, 2011 |

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