Jeff Sparrow

No Way But This (eBook, ePUB)

in search of Paul Robeson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.Paul Robeson was a prize-winning scholar and the greatest footballer of his era, even before he ascended to globalsuperstardom as a singer, Hollywood actor, and activist. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson stunned audiences with Ol Man River and Othello, as his passion for social justice led him from Jazz Age Harlem to the mining towns of Wales, from the frontiers of the Spanish Civil War to Stalin s Russia.Charismatic, eloquent, and handsome, he had everything and then lost it all for the sake of his principles.Jeff Sparrow traces Robeson s troubled life and stellar career, in a story that traverses the arc of the twentieth century and illuminates the fissures of today s fractured world. From Black Lives Matter to Putin s United Russia, Sparrow visits the places Robeson lived and worked, exploring race in America, freedom in Moscow, and the legacies of communism and fascism in Europe.Part travelogue, part biography, this is a tale of political ardour, heritage, and trauma a luminous portrait of a remarkable man, and an urgent reflection on the crises that define us now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781925548143
• Artikelnr.: 47818888

Autorenporträt

Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster, and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a columnist for The Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at Melbourne's 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland literary journal. His most recent books are Fascists Among Us: online hate and the Christchurch massacre; Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the rise of the right; and No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson. He lectures at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.