Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Tom Mooney
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Thomas J. Mooney
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Thomas J. Mooney
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Tom Mooney
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pardon
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 18. Considers resolution to urge Calif. Gov. Frank F. Merriam to pardon former labor union activist Thomas J. Mooney.
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950
Author: Gerald HornePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292731387
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher Fact Sheet This engrossing book probes the motives & actions of all the players in the Conference of Studio Unions Strike in 1946, tracing the far-reaching consequences of this strike & the ensuing lockout to the subsequent fury of Red-baiting & the encroachment of organized crime in Hollywood.
Making Something Happen
Author: Michael ThurstonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875007
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Poetry makes nothing happen," wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s--the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. He offers an engaging new look at the political poetry of Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Muriel Rukeyser. Thurston combines close textual reading of the poems with research into their historical context to reveal how these four poets deployed the resources of tradition and experimentation to contest and redefine political common sense. In the process, he demonstrates that the aesthetic censure under which much partisan writing has labored needs dramatic revision. Although each of these poets worked with different forms and toward different ends, Thurston shows that their strategies succeed as poetry. He argues that partisan poetry demands reflection not only on how we evaluate poems but also on what we value in poems and, therefore, which poems we elevate.
Tom Mooney's Message to Organized Labor, His Friends and Supporters, and All Liberal and Progressive Voters of California on the 1938 California Elections
Author: Tom MooneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A Son of Earth
Author: William Ellery LeonardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Political Plays of Langston Hughes
Author: Langston HughesPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809322961
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Among the most influential poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is perhaps best remembered for the innovative use of jazz rhythms in his writing. While his poetry and essays received much public acclaim and scholarly attention, Hughes' dramas are relatively unknown. Only five of the sixty-three plays Hughes scripted alone or collaboratively have been published (in 1963). Published here, for the first time, are four of Hughes' most poignant, poetic, and political dramas, Scottsboro Limited, Harvest (also known as Blood on the Fields), Angelo Herndon Jones, and De Organizer. Each play reflects Hughes' remarkable professionalism as a playwright as well as his desire to dramatize the social history of the African American experience, especially in the context of the labor movements of the 1930s and their attempts to attract African American workers. Hughes himself counted prominent members of these leftist groups among his close friends and patrons; he formed a theater group with Whittaker Chambers, prompting an FBI investigation of Hughes and his writing in the 1930s. These plays, while easily read as idealistic propaganda pieces for the left, are nonetheless reflective of Hughes' other more influential and studied works. The first scholar to offer a systematic study of Hughes' plays, Susan Duffy provides an informed introduction as well as a detailed analysis of each of the four plays. Each chapter begins with locating the play at a moment in the social history of the 1930s. Then Duffy analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed throughout the script, focusing on the political ideologies attacked as well as the ideologies endorsed. Duffy also establishes that De Organizer,a collaboration with noted jazz pianist and composer James P. Johnson (who also wrote its score) was indeed performed by the Labor Stage. Throughout the analysis of Scottsboro Limited, Harvest, Angelo Herndon Jones, and De Organizer, Duffy returns to the questions of Hughes' motives for writing these works: Were they merely didactic plays attempting to please Hughes' leftist patrons or heartfelt leftist political propaganda? By making these forgotten texts available, and by presenting them within a scholarly discussion of 1930s leftist political movements, Duffy seeks to spark a renewed interest in Langston Hughes as an American playwright and political figure.