Jack London /Robert Wernick.
Wernick, Robert,
Jack London /Robert Wernick. - [Rockville (Md.)] : New Word City, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Nothing in Jack London's life was unequivocal. He was a self-taught man whose lack of formal education gave him no coherent structure for his views. His convictions as a socialist were constantly at war with his frontier individualism; his proclivities as a carouser belied his lofty principles. He empathized with underdogs ranging from Mexicans and lepers to the African-American boxer Jack Johnson, but he uncritically accepted California prejudices about Asian immigration and "the yellow peril." Here, in this essay by award-winning journalist Robert Wernick, the story of America's first working-class writer.
9781640190450
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Electronic Books.
PS3523 / .J335 2017
Jack London /Robert Wernick. - [Rockville (Md.)] : New Word City, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Nothing in Jack London's life was unequivocal. He was a self-taught man whose lack of formal education gave him no coherent structure for his views. His convictions as a socialist were constantly at war with his frontier individualism; his proclivities as a carouser belied his lofty principles. He empathized with underdogs ranging from Mexicans and lepers to the African-American boxer Jack Johnson, but he uncritically accepted California prejudices about Asian immigration and "the yellow peril." Here, in this essay by award-winning journalist Robert Wernick, the story of America's first working-class writer.
9781640190450
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Electronic Books.
PS3523 / .J335 2017