Howard Fast

"Invites comparison with Crane's Red Badge of Courage . . . Ithink this is an even better book."--The New York Times When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town....

Among Howard Fast's historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine-one of America's all-time best-sellers-occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine's revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us a vivid picture of...

"Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master". -- Chicago Daily NewsAuthor: Howard Fast, Eric Foner, W. E....

Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force -- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food...and brutal murders. Here, collected for the first time, are the two adventures that launched the popular crime-fiction...

Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food... and brutal murders. In The Case of the Sliding Pool, the collapse of a swimming pool exposes the...

A play that satirizes the political confusions of both youthful activists and middle-aged believers in gradual reform. Translated by A. Leslie Willson and Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.Author: Howard FastISBN-10: 0156577828ISBN-13: 9780156577823Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/1972Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.53h x 5.52w...

"A novel of satisfying depth and breadth, written in good, clean, forceful prose."--Chicago TribuneA new edition of the New York Times bestselling second book in Howard Fast's powerful historical family saga, Second Generation follows the Lavette immigrants through the challenges of the Great Depression...

Author: Howard FastISBN-10: 1258398338ISBN-13: 9781258398330Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2012Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture.Author: Howard FastISBN-10: 156324599XISBN-13: 9781563245992Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/1996Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.03w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 02/01/1997 pg. 112Booklist 05/15/2003 pg. 1639

She'll stand up for her family, no matter the costFormer socialite Barbara Lavette is unconcerned about the gossip that surrounds her new marriage. However, her husband Bernie, a poor mechanic whom she met in the midst of World War II, is willing to do...

An imaginative, strange, and boldly inventive collection of stories from a singular mind, with a new introduction by Mark HarrisIn The General Zapped an Angel, featuring nine supremely entertaining fantasy and science fiction tales, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears to be an...

"A most wonderful book...there hasn't been a novel in years that can do a job on readers' emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does."--Los Angeles TimesThe first book in bestselling author Howard Fast's beloved family saga, The Immigrants is a transcendent...

One of the most prolific authors of the twentieth century presents a classic of popular history, his masterwork on the four-thousand-year history of the Jewish people, beginning with Moses and running all the way through to the post-World War II establishment of the State...

Originally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. Some 300 Indians, led by Little Wolf,...

Author: Howard FastISBN-10: 1258475944ISBN-13: 9781258475949Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2012Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.45d

2020 Reprint of the 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Howard Fast (1914-2003) was one of the most prolific American writers of the twentieth century. He was a bestselling author of more than eighty works...

The name "Tito" has become legendary in the annals of our common struggle against Hitlerism. Yet less is known about him today than most men of equal renown. Howard Fast, that distinguished American author of "Citizen Tom Paine" fame, made a careful study of...