TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wernick,Robert
TI  - Jack London /Robert Wernick
SN  - 9781640190450
AV  - PS3523 .J335 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - [Rockville (Md.)]
PB  - New Word City
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - 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
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