Standing Fast

Download or read book Standing Fast written by Harvey Swados and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA masterful novel of political progressives making their way—and not—in an ever-changing postwar America /divDIV For Marty Dworkin and his band of young Trotskyist dreamers in Buffalo, New York, the vision of a just, socialist world crumbles with the rise of Stalin and the chaos of World War II. In the two decades that follow, Dworkin and his idealistic colleagues strive to establish a new political party and battle through unexpected trials with family, work, aging, and the changing world./divDIV /divDIVThey run up against an increasingly conservative America and a thriving materialism directly opposed to their own fervent beliefs. They emerge humbled, but still hopeful, into the 1960s, when civil rights struggles and anti-war radicalism move to center stage./divDIV /divStanding Fast is a classic, panoramic portrait of life amid the shattered dreams and visionary ambitions of the American left. /div