The Narrative of Hosea Hudson
The Life and Times of a Black Radical
Hosea Hudson author Nell Irvin Painter author Nell Irvin Painter editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:9th Feb '94
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s and became a member of the Communist Party as well as president of a CIO union local. It was a hard, dangerous life, to be Black and communist and pro-union, and Hudson talked about that life to Nell Painter, who brilliantly recreates it in this collaborative oral autobiography.
"Valuable and exuberant…artfully organized and edited.…Its strength is Mr. Hudson's remarkable memory, his ability to evoke the drudgery and minutiae that are at the core of any devoted party member's life, black or white, North or South." -- Joe Klein - New York Times Book Review
"Among the many exemplary qualities of this narrative and its hero is their lack of sentimentality. For Hosea Hudson, there is no romance of American Communism; instead, his relationship with the Communist Party is a model of mutual exploitation.…[A] marvelous book. Moving, fearful, and funny, Hudson and Painter’s Narrative is as valuable an American life as has ever been wrested from anonymity." -- Benita Eisler - The Nation
ISBN: 9780393310153
Dimensions: 239mm x 155mm x 28mm
Weight: 633g
432 pages