Beginning in the ancient world, this colorful, fast-paced saga enriches our understanding of the Jews and their impact on the world. With drama no fiction can match, master storyteller Howard Fast tra
"Fast is at his best as a storyteller"? Christian Science Monitor The strength of five brothers will define a nation.My Glorious Brothers is the epic story of perhaps the most breathtaking chapter in
In the late summer of 1949, a racist mob protesting a concert by African-American singer Paul Robeson assaulted working class blacks and whites with rocks and bottles in upstate New York. Fast's compe
Among Howard Fast's historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine-one of America's all-time best-sellers-occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine's revolutiona
In this first novel of an epic family saga, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the rise of a poor fisherman's son from the cataclysmic depths of the San Francisco earthquake to become the head o
Reprint of the autobiography of a popular novelist, originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1990. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
"Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which
Spartacus, a fictionalization of a slave revolt in ancient Rome in 71 B.C., is well known today partly because of the 1960 movie starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. It was originally publishe
Offers a fictional portrayal of the darkest period of the American Revolution, when Washington's army was close to total collapse in the summer and fall of 1776
Originally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming
It's 1948 and World War II is over, but the world is not at peace. In San Francisco, Barbara Lavette, author and foreign correspondent, is trying to make a new life with her young son and husband Ber
When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip yo