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Spivak, John Louis was born on June 3, 1897 in New Haven.
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(Originally published as the novel Georgia Nigger (1932).)
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(America Faces The Barricade by John L. Spivak. AFTER talk...)
America Faces The Barricade by John L. Spivak. AFTER talking with all kinds of people throughout the country, I am convinced that the American worker does not want to overthrow the government. All he wants is food. But if the government will not make it possible for him to earn it or will not give it to him, then he will overthrow the government, without realizing that he is doing so. Under the present economic system it is impossible for our farms and factories ever to absorb all the millions of unemployed. The tendency, since the curtailment of the working hours, has been for manufacturers to mechanize their plants more highly in order to make up for the reduced working hours where they cannot be made up by the "speed-up" system. Thus, for years, millions will be permanently on relief rolls, whom the government will have to support, since private charity can no longer do it.
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(John Spivak, with a long and daring career as a crusading...)
John Spivak, with a long and daring career as a crusading reporter, reveals in this autobiography his behind-the-scenes discoveries in covering some of the 20th century's most important events - the electrifying stories he not only reported but often helped create. --- His book covers a range of fascinating experiences including: America's last great labor war in the 1919 coal fields of West Virginia when 7,000 armed miners faced the U.S. Army - Bartolomeo Vanzetti's confidences about why he was being martyred - Alabama's State Attorney General disclosing the political profits to be reaped from the infamous Scottsboro Case - Interview of Major General Smedley Butler, chosen in 1934 by banking and industrial interests to lead a planned coup to overthrow the American government and install a military dictatorship - He focused a reluctant nation's attention onto the brutalities of Georgia's chain gangs - Played a key role in exposing the pre-war fascist underground in the United States and Central America, as well as helping to topple the dark financial empire of the radio preacher Father Coughlin. --- He is a master story-teller with an uncommon gift for illuminating the personalities and events against the background of their times. He tells his story with candor and authority: he was there, he saw it all.
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(Within recent years new forces have swept over great nati...)
Within recent years new forces have swept over great nations, crashing against the established order and, in some cases, obliterating it. The old forces, which survived the centuries, are struggling desperately to maintain themselves against the tides sweeping in from several different seas. In country after country, the old form of democratic government has been supplanted by the new order called Fascism. In many countries where Fascism has not been victorious, powerful movements are under way to establish it and equally powerful movements are struggling bitterly to prevent it. Millions of earnest and honest citizens, tired of the disordered state of economic and political affairs, have turned to Fascism as the only obstacle to prevent the disintegration of what we know as civilization and a resultant chaos. Other equally earnest and honest citizens regard this new order as the most intolerable form of government imaginable and are fighting this new force with all the energy they can muster, as in France and in Spain. There the anti-Fascist forces developed tremendous power by uniting with their own political enemies to save themselves and their countries from Fascism.
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(The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John ...)
The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak's shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having "the weight and authority of a sociological investigation." This Southern Classics edition makes Spivak's narrative available to modern readers, augmented with a new introduction by David A. Davis as well as additional documents Spivak gathered during his investigation into the abuses of the Depression-era Southern prison system. Georgia Nigger exposes the institutionalized system of sharecropping, debt peonage, and exorbitant chain gang sentences that trapped many southern black men in a cycle of labor exploitation. Spivak (1897-1981) gained unlikely access to chain gangs through the Georgia Prison Commission, and his book combines elements of muckraking reportage and proletarian fiction to offer a sensational and damning case for prison reform. The plot follows David Jackson, the son of black sharecroppers, who is released from a chain gang then almost immediately re-arrested and bound over to a white planter as a peon. Jackson escapes peonage only to be arrested again as a vagrant and sentenced to another chain gang. He tries to escape again with the help of an older inmate, but they are both captured and suffer torturous punishments. Spivak's novel has merit both as revealing historical account of sharecropping and chain gangs and as a compelling literary allegory of an individual confronted by sweeping social forces. For Depression-era readers, Georgia Nigger provided outrage beyond its obvious depictions of inhumanity and torture. The book hinges on the crime of vagrancy, a charge often used to force into labor persons without obvious means of income. In this particular arrangement, being unemployed was a crime in itself, which allowed for the exploitation of the economically vulnerable. Like many writers and intellectuals of his era, Spivak sought to expose the abuses committed against the nation's most impoverished. His book combines elements of labor rabble-rousing, radical fiction, and documentary photography to depict the lives of black Southerners and to indict a flawed system of labor and justice.
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Spivak, John Louis was born on June 3, 1897 in New Haven.
Student, public schools.
Reporter New Haven Union, 1914-1917, New York Sun, 1917-1919, New York Call, 1919-1921. Correspondent INS, Berlin, Moscow, 1922-1923.
(John Spivak, with a long and daring career as a crusading...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
(Within recent years new forces have swept over great nati...)
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(The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John ...)
(Originally published as the novel Georgia Nigger (1932).)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
(America Faces The Barricade by John L. Spivak. AFTER talk...)
(NY 1940 2nd Modern Age. 8vo., 180pp., cloth. VG in Fair D...)
Member Authors League American.
Son of Louis and Ida Sara Fanny (Sukloff) S. M. Mable Mae Fry, July 2, 1917. A daughter, Jacqueline Spivak Klein.