{"product_id":"man-on-a-road-and-albert-maltz-9780714550985","title":"Man on a Road and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe titular story in this collection, 'Man on a Road' - which famously led to the 1936 congressional hearings that exposed the worst industrial disaster in American history - is a snapshot of appalling capitalist exploitation from the perspective of a walking-dead miner slowly suffocating from silicosis. 'The Happiest Man on Earth', winner of the 1938 O. Henry Award, is about a man who, desperate to feed his family and regain his dignity, embarks on a long journey on foot in his quest for a job, while 'The Way Things Are' renders the terrors of the Jim Crow South with unflinching realism, foreshadowing the aesthetics and politics of the civil-rights movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlbert Maltz, one of the \"Hollywood Ten\" of the McCarthy era, spent ten months in prison and twenty years on the blacklist as a banned artist forced to write under a pseudonym. With this collection of stories, spanning forty years of his career and including previously uncollected works, his long-silenced voice returns, re-establishing him as a master of hard-hitting but compassionate short fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albert Maltz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0714550981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780714550985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Calder Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Albert Maltz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001214845183,"sku":"9780714550985","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15356c55-918c-489a-8f07-9f9ece783038.jpg?v=1751600401","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/man-on-a-road-and-albert-maltz-9780714550985","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}