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She'll stand up for her family, no matter the cost Former socialite Barbara Lavette is unconcerned about the gossip that surrounds her new marriage. However, her husband Bernie, a poor mechanic whom she met in the midst of World War II, is willing to do anything to prove his worth to her as well as the society that shuns him. Barbara will support her husband in any way she can, but when she becomes the victim of an attack by the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities, she is show more forced to stand trial. Caught in a Communist witch hunt, Barbara must do whatever it takes to defend her values, clear her name, and find a way to reunite her family. The third book in Howard Fast's epic family saga, The Establishment follows the Lavette family as they attempt to persevere in a nation consumed with fear during the tumultuous period following World War II. show lessTags
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3rd Story of San Francisco family
In The Establishment, Howard Fast pulls the listener into the turbulent and passionate lives of the Dan Lavette family story begun in The Immigrants and continued in Second Generation.
Howard Fast again brings to life a cast of characters whose lives become a portrait of their time. Listeners will witness the events in the lives of the children of Dan Lavette: Follow daughter Barbara Lavette, a strong and magnetic personality, from tragedy to final fulfillment; observe the elder son, Tom, as he quests for and finally succumbs to his own unscrupulous drive for power; and feel the conflict as the younger son, Joe, struggles between dedication to his medical work to the poor and having no emotional strength show more left for his beautiful wife left alone. show less
In The Establishment, Howard Fast pulls the listener into the turbulent and passionate lives of the Dan Lavette family story begun in The Immigrants and continued in Second Generation.
Howard Fast again brings to life a cast of characters whose lives become a portrait of their time. Listeners will witness the events in the lives of the children of Dan Lavette: Follow daughter Barbara Lavette, a strong and magnetic personality, from tragedy to final fulfillment; observe the elder son, Tom, as he quests for and finally succumbs to his own unscrupulous drive for power; and feel the conflict as the younger son, Joe, struggles between dedication to his medical work to the poor and having no emotional strength show more left for his beautiful wife left alone. show less
La tercera parte de la Saga Lavette. Ha terminado la Segunda Guerra Mundial y Estados Unidos, después del primer momento de euforia, vuelve a enfrentarse con problemas, desde crisis económicas hasta la persecución anticomunista del senador McCarthy. A través de todas ellas, y de sus propias crisis personales, pasaran los protagonistas de esta novela buscando, unos dinero, otros amor, otros su propia paz interior...
Nov 10, 2022Spanish
En El Sistema, al parecer la tercera y última de las partes en que se desarrolla esta saga, encontramos de nuevo a muchos de los protagonistas de las dos novelas anteriores junto a otros nuevos o que apenas habían ocupado lugar en las otras.Ha terminado la Segunda Guerra Mundial y Estados Unidos, después del primer momento de euforia, vuelve a encentrarse con problemas, desde crisis económicas hasta la persecución anticomunista del senador McCarthy.A través de todas ellas, y de sus propias crisis personales, pasaran los protagonistas de esta novela buscando, unos dinero, otros amor, otros su propia paz interior. Un gran fresco histórico de una época y de unos personajes, trazado con mana maestra por uno de los, realmente, show more grandes escritores norteamericanos actuales. show less
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Howard Fast was born on November 11, 1914 in Manhattan. At the age of 17, he sold his first story to Amazing Stories magazine. The next year he sold his first novel, Two Villages, to the Dial Press for a $100 advance. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 80 books, including Conceived in Liberty, The Unvanquished, Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom show more Road, April Morning, The Immigrants, Second Generation, The Establishment, The Legacy, and Greenwich. He won the Stalin International Peace Prize in 1953. A member of the Communist party, he served three months in a federal prison in 1950 for refusing to testify about his political activity. Blacklisted as a result, he founded his own publishing house, Blue Heron Press, which released his novel Spartacus in 1951. In 1957, he wrote a book about his political experiences entitled The Naked God. He also wrote a series of detective stories under the name E. V. Cunningham. He died on March 12, 2003 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Establishment
- Original publication date
- 1979
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- Cohen, a large, heavyset man of forty-three, was gradually losing his patience, and that would be a prelude to losing his temper and taking it out on everyone around him, and that had been happening too often.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
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- PZ3 .F265 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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