Features
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November Feature
The Fast-Talking Howard Fast. This month’s guest essay is on the historical novelist Howard Fast (Citizen Tom Paine, Conceived in Liberty, Spartacus). It is graciously provided to Painting the Culture Red by historian Ron Capshaw. You can find it under Pages (top left).
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July Feature: A Response
Taken to Task. “What’s Going on Here?” by B. O. Goodbody rebuts what your editor wrote about “the great American folk scare.” It’s at the top left, the Pages list, in the Guest Essay Archive.
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Feature on Politics and Folk Music
New Left, Old Left, Left-Over Left. Our guest essayist this month is Bob Cohen, a veteran of the 1960s folk group the New World Singers. He discusses the Hollywood movie about folkies—and how things really were. Read “Strumming Along with Dylan and Seeger” by returning to top left, the Pages list.
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Feature on the Blacklist Era
All the CP’s Men. The great screenwriter Robert Rossen (Body and Soul, All the King’s Men) is the subject of historian Ron Capshaw’s new essay, which he has graciously provided to Painting the Culture Red. Read Capshaw on Rossen by returning to the top, left side, the Pages list.