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The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County invites the community to join two public programs this week. The first, the Well Read Citizen’s Book Club will discuss the young life of …
“I felt as if my classmate, in handing me the book, had in effect publicly shamed and exposed me.”
Alice Neel, Mike Gold, 1952. © The Estate of Alice Neel Courtesy (Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner) Is it time to release Michael Gold from his personal gulag to range free in the pastures of 20th-century American literature? BOOKS IN REVIEW By Patrick Chura Gold—“Mike” to his comrades—was a key figure in American letters from the mid-1920s well into the Great Depression. A leading advocate and practitioner of “proletarian literature,” he was also the editor of New Masses, perhaps the most important left-wing periodical of the 1930s. A committed, vocifer...
The Life Of Ben Franklin In The Bread Giver The Life Of Ben Franklin In The Bread Giver 479 Words2 Pages Not only was the American Dream shown throughout The Bread Givers, it was also shown throughout the life of Ben Franklin. Ever since Ben was a young boy he was always very eager to learn and educate himself as much as possible, which laid out the foundation for Ben Franklinâs life. Ben grew up in a Boston with his parents and his seventeen siblings. He originally intended on following his fatherâs footsteps and becoming a minister, but that career path quickly changed when Ben sh...