Howard Fast Books In Order

The Crossing Books In Publication Order

The Crossing (1971)
Bunker Hill (1994)

Lavette Family Books In Publication Order

The Immigrants (1977)
Second Generation (1978)
The Establishment (1979)
The Legacy (1981)
The Immigrant’s Daughter (1985)
An Independent Woman (1997)

Masao Masuto Books In Publication Order

Matsuto: The Hollywood Murders (2001)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

Two Valleys (1933)
Strange Yesterday (1933)
Place in the City (1937)
Conceived in Liberty (1939)
The Last Frontier (1941)
Haym Salomon, Son of Liberty (1941)
Lord Baden-Powell of the Boy Scouts (1941)
The Romance of a People (1941)
Goethals and the Panama Canal (1942)
The Tall Hunter (1942)
The Unvanquished (1942)
Citizen Tom Paine (1943)
Freedom Road (1944)
The American (1946)
The Children (1947)
Clarkton (1947)
My Glorious Brothers (1948)
The Proud and the Free (1950)
Spartacus (1951)
Fallen Angel / Mirage (As: Walter Ericson) (1952)
The Magic Door / Tony and the Wonderful Door (1952)
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1953)
Silas Timberman (1954)
The Story of Lola Gregg (1956)
Moses, Prince of Egypt (1958)
The Winston Affair (1959)
April Morning (1961)
Power (1962)
Agrippa’s Daughter (1964)
Torquemada (1966)
Max (1982)
The Outsider (1984)
The Dinner Party (1987)
The Pledge (1988)
The Confession of Joe Cullen (1989)
The Trial of Abigail Goodman (1993)
The Bridge Builder’s Story (1995)
The Hessian (1996)
Redemption (1999)
Greenwich (2000)
The Hollywood Blacklist (2002)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

Spain and Peace (1952)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

Patrick Henry and the Frigate’s Keel (1945)
Departure and Other Stories (1949)
The Last Supper and Other Stories (1955)
The Howard Fast Reader (1960)
The Edge of Tomorrow (1961)
The Hunter and the Trap (1967)
The General Zapped an Angel (1970)
Time and the Riddle (1973)
A Touch of Infinity (1973)
The Call of Fife and Drum (1987)
Collected Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018)

Plays In Publication Order

Thirty Pieces of Silver (2011)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

The Novelist (1941)
The Picture Book History of the Jews (With: ) (1942)
Literature and Reality (1950)
Peekskill, USA (1951)
The Naked God (1957)
The Jews (1970)
The Art of Zen Meditation (1977)
Being Red (1990)
War and Peace (1992)
The Incredible Tito (2011)
Tito and His People (2013)

The Crossing Book Covers

Lavette Family Book Covers

Masao Masuto Book Covers

Matsuto: The Hollywood Murders
(2001)

Standalone Novels Book Covers

Short Stories/Novellas Book Covers

Spain and Peace
(1952)

Short Story Collections Book Covers

Plays Book Covers

Thirty Pieces of Silver
(2011)

Non-Fiction Book Covers

Howard Fast Books Overview

The Crossing

Nobody has written more passionately or more vividly about the American Revolution than Howard Fast. The legendary living author of Freedom Road and Citizen Tom Paine, the Academy Award winning screenwriter of Spartacus and the triumphant survivor of Hollywood’s notorious blacklist of the fifties, Howard Fast is a part of American history. This definitive new edition of Fast’s novel, with photographs from the A&E film, reverberates with the dramatic events of Washington’s re crossing of the Delaware a pivotal moment in the American Revolution. It is an amazing testament to Washington’s leadership of the young volunteer army fighting in summer clothes against the bitter cold, the snow and the almost impassable Delaware River. Criss crossing through Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York, this is also the tale of Colonel John Glover, the leader of a band of New England fishermen, of Tom Paine, the first American war correspondent; and the dreaded German Hessians themselves Dispelling the myths of history, Howard Fast has written an unforgettable and true account of a key event in America’s struggle for independence that all Americans should know and understand.

Bunker Hill

Use the code 35JUL10 for 35 off! ‘Howard Fast is fiercely American, he is one of ours, one of our very best.’ The Los Angeles Times One battle will determine the fate of Boston Three thousand soldiers from the world’s greatest army are cornered in Boston, surrounded by farmers and doctors turned rebel soldiers and generals. For a week both sides are at an impasse, until June 17, 1775, when the standstill comes to a violent, bloody end on Breed’s and Bunker Hills. In Bunker Hill, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the unlikely battle that changed the course of the Revolutionary War forever. Tensions rise among both the British and Colonial soldiers as political and tactical frustrations, dissent, confusion, and fear threaten to tear both sides apart before the fighting even begins. ‘Fast is at his best as Storyteller.’ Christian Science Monitor

The Immigrants

The first book in bestselling author Howard Fast’s beloved family saga ‘A most wonderful book…
there hasn’t been a novel in years that can do a job on readers’ emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does.’ Los Angeles Times In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the rise and fall of a family of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes the head of a powerful shipping empire and establishes himself among the city’s cultural elite. But when he finds himself caught in a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco’s richest family, a scandalous love affair threatens to destroy the empire Dan has built for himself. The first of a compelling family saga, The Immigrants is a fast paced, emotional novel that captures the wide range of relationships among immigrant families during the tumultuous events that defined the early twentieth century in America. ‘A non stop page turner…
moving, vivid…
a splendid achievement!’ Erica Jong ‘Howard Fast is fiercely American. He is one of ours, one of our very best!’ Los Angeles Times ‘Warmth…
Power…
Tenderness…
Excitement…
Readers will find themselves anxiously awaiting the sequel.’ Columbus Dispatch

Second Generation

With the publication of The Immigrants, ‘a most wonderful book,’ according to Harlan Ellison in the Los Angeles Times, Howard Fast once again proved himself to be one of this country’s most popular authors. In Second Generation, Fast continues the story of Dan Lavette, the young Italian who lost his parents but launched a stormy and brilliant career as a result of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. This latest chapter encompas*ses the dramatic sweep of history from the Depression years to the close of World War II. In this classic novel the central figure is Barbara Lavette, the beautiful daughter of Dan and his aristocratic first wife, Jean. Troubled by the conflicts of her dual inheritance and scornful of her mother’s social world, Barbara sets out to build her own life in her own way a way that leads her to a Europe on the brink of Na*zi terror, to love and tragedy, to the farthest reaches of a global war, and ultimately to a deeper understanding of herself. It is the rare novelist who can create a world with such empathy and compassion that the reader actually comes to share the loves and emotions of its characters. Howard Fast is one of them.

The Establishment

The Legacy

The Legacy continues the saga of the Lavette family begun in these bestsellers: The Immigrants, Second Generation, and The Establishment. This fourth in series story takes place during the turbulent 1960s as Barbara Lavette and her family are embroiled in the issues of that decade: Civil Rights, Israel’s Six Day War, the Nixon years, Vietnam and riots in the street. Barbara Lavette develops into a powerful, strong willed, capable person while the children of the third generation of Lavettes take their place in society and stand by their own ideals and values. The Legacy will capture listeners with its involving story and leave them wanting more!

The Immigrant’s Daughter

In this triumphant conclusion to the Lavette saga, Howard Fast brings the story up to the present, to the fourth generation. As Dan Lavette dominated The Immigrants, so his eldest child, Barbara, is the focus of this wide ranging and passionate novel. After a life filled with danger, love and death, Barbara, now in her sixties, is living a simple life in San Francisco. And then, almost on a whim, she runs for Congress and sets in motion a series of adventures that brings her back to the excitement of the times, to a renewal of romantic love, to mortal danger as a reporter in Central America, to loss and tragedy, and in the end, to an exultant embracing of life.

An Independent Woman

In this unforgettable final chapter of the Immigrants series, Howard Fast follows the trials and joys of the wealthy Lavette matriarch, Barbara, whose life has been a selfless journey powered by an unshakable faith in the human spirit. Barbara now discovers the unexpected delights of finding love in her later years, even as she encounters the most daunting obstacle of her life.

The Last Frontier

The story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. This updated edition includes an introduction by the author.

The Unvanquished

Originally published in 1942, this text tells the story of the Continental Army and George Washington in the desperate early months when the American Revolution faced defeat and disintergration. It begins with the retreat across Manhattan’s East River and ends with the raid on the Hessian camp.

Citizen Tom Paine

Among Howard Fast’s historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine one of America’s all time best sellers occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine’s revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us ‘a vivid picture of Paine’s mode of writing, idiosyncrasies, and character generous, nobly unselfish, moody, often dirty, frequently drunken, a revolutionist by avocation’ Library Journal

Freedom Road

The tale of a Southern black who became a congressman during the Reconstruction period that followed the American Civil War. This edition also contains primary source documents from the Reconstruction.

My Glorious Brothers

They were farmers until the tumultuous events of history caught up with them. Simon, the eldest of five brothers, tells how Judah molded the people of Judea into an army capable of defeating the mighty Greek Battalions. For three decades, the Maccabees carried on the struggle, which, in terms of resistance and liberation, has almost no parallel in human history. It was the first modern fight for freedom, the first victory for religious freedom, and it laid a pattern for many movements that followed. My Glorious Brothers, by the master novelist and historian, Howard Fast Spartacus, Freedom Road, April Morning, is a powerful recreation of the epic events, still celebratted by Jews the world over as the holiday of Hanukkah. Now a new generation of readrs, both teenagers and adults, can thrill to the drama of this contemporary classic.

The Proud and the Free

The return of a classic novel by legendary author Howard Fast, acclaimed and bestselling author of the Immigrants saga, Spartacus, and Citizen Tom Paine. This is the simple and moving story of Jamie Stuart, of the 11th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. Stuart, bound to a cobbler, had run away to join the army at seventeen. Now as a man of twenty two, he is chosen one of the Committee of Sergeants who, on New Year’s Day of 1781 when open revolt seemed the only way to justify the principles for which they fought organize and hold the Line together against its officers.

Spartacus

‘Spartacus‘ is a fictionalization of a slave revolt in Rome in 71 BC, well known today because of the 1960 film version. It was originally published by Fast after being turned down by every mainstream publisher of the day. This is a reprinting of the title with a special introduction by the author.

Moses, Prince of Egypt

From the author of Spartacus and Freedom Road, comes a novel of the Bible’s greatest freedom fighter, the rebellious prince of Egypt, Moses! This definitive new edition of Howard Fast s riveting novel portrays the early years of the man who would lead his people out of slavery to freedom. In Moses, Howard Fast uses his widely acclaimed storytelling skills to paint a portrait of the most fascinating figure of the Bible. The child Moses grows to adulthood in the royal household of Ramses II, surrounded by the political factions, sending, but not fully understanding, the paradox of his singular position. Through the strikingly contrasting events of Moses epic life, Howard Fast traces the growth of his character as a biblical hero. an outsider in the court of Egypt, Moses sees the corruption and decadence of the royal family for what it is. Their autocracy acts as a forge for his moral character. Fast takes us into the white house above the first cataract as Moses experiences his first love; watches as Moses endures the savage Egyptian campaigning against the black men of Kush; and recalls the young man s rebellion against the Egyptian priesthood. Renouncing his royal trappings, Moses casts his lot with his own enslaved people, the Jews, and becomes, for all time, an inspiration to the world.

April Morning

Historical novelist Howard Fast brings the past colorfully to life with his powerful stories. In his best selling April Morning, he portrays a young man’s introduction to the harsh realities of war during our nation’s fight for independence. Fifteen year old Adam Cooper is anxcious to join the excitement and action of the Revolutionary War. On the morning of April 19, 1775, he stands beside his Massachusetts farmer father to face the redcoats marching out of Boston. But suddenly, his father falls on the village green, and Adam’s hands are shaking as he shoots at columns of marching men. With realistic drama and riveting suspense, Howard Fast brings the glory and the agony of the colonial battlefield vividly to life.

Agrippa’s Daughter

Agrippa’s Daughter is the dramatic story of a Jewish queen whose life was the greatest romance of ancient time. Queen Berenice Bat Agrippa of Israel was the daughter of the King of Israel, Agrippa I. Bernice was 23 when her marriage to King Herod of Chalcis ended with his death. She then married the physician Shimeon Ben Gamaliel, of the House of the great Rabbi Hillel, to whose teachings she became a committed disciple. After the murder of Shimeon, she traveled to Rome and fell in love with Titus, son of the Emporer. They planned an impossible but beautiful union between the royal lines of Rome and Israel. Berenice’s story is also the story of the Nation of Israel, in the years before the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and the cruel exile of the Jewish people from their ancient homeland.

Max

marvelousy gripping , rewarding novelis the story of the tycoons who created and built the motion picture industry not in hollywood but in newyork city in the turn of the century. reveied as the best book ever writtrn by him.

The Dinner Party

Howard Fast has placed the entire action of this highly charged novel in the space of one day at the substantial home of a prominent United States senator. This dinner party sounds like a well-ordered and gracious affair, but as events unfold, there are things to be settled – some are political and ethical, some are emotional, and some are questions of life and death. This is a profound and important novel with the dramatic intensity of first class theater.

The Trial of Abigail Goodman

Abigail Goodman, a forty one year old college professor and mother of two grown children, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and, after much soul searching, has an abortion, only to be arrested and tried for murder.

The Hessian

When his entire brigade is wiped out by the colonists, a sixteen year old German drummer boy survives with the aid of a Quaker family and the local doctor.

Redemption

A gripping trial becomes an inquisition of the heart for a man whose fiance, three decades younger, is accused of murder. No one could be more surprised than Ike Goldman, a seventy eight year old retired contract law professor at Columbia, when he discovers that the much younger woman whom he keeps from suicide on the George Washington Bridge opens a new world of love for him. Nor could he be more shocked than when she is arrested for the murder of her ex husband. Has Ike’s love for this woman whom he has known for only six weeks blinded him to the part of her that could have led to murder? Was the abuse that Elizabeth suffered at her ex husband’s hands enough to drive even this gentle, deeply religious woman to a desperate act? Is her show of faith only a mask for revenge? In the swirling thrust and parry of her trial, Ike is forced to examine his hopes, his beliefs, and his love for the woman whose life hangs in the balance. Howard Fast’s newest novel combines the suspense of great courtroom drama with the ineffable connection between a man and a woman.

Greenwich

On a quiet night in the best part of Greenwich, Connecticut, eight people assemble for a convivial dinner. But after that night, their lives will never be the same, as death erupts into their lives. They are a disparate group, including a former State Department employee, a Catholic nun, a linguistics professor, and a successful novelist. They, and the people they love, portray the arrogance and innocence, brutality and compassion in America today. Each character becomes a thread dark, light, or a shade in between in a carpet of intricate design, and as Howard Fast weaves them together, they embody the interdependence of human life and human guilt and the eternal work of redemption.

Peekskill, USA

In the late summer of 1949, a racist mob protesting a concert by African American singer Paul Robeson assaulted working class blacks and whites with rocks and bottles in upstate New York. Fast’s compelling and detailed you are there account of the violence records a landmark in the civil rights movement. 10 illustrations.

The Jews

Beginning in the ancient world, this colorful, fast paced saga enriches our understanding of The Jews and their impact on the world. With drama no fiction can match, master storyteller Howard Fast traces the evolution of a tradition powerful enough to give lasting identity to a scattered, wandering people. Bringing to life the extraordinary men and women who have shaped history Moses, Hillel, Jesus and many more this compelling book explores the customs and philosophies that have endured persecution, emigration, and the Holocaust. Fast also probes the towering achievements of this unique and fascinating people, illustrating their important role in the origins of Western culture, Christianity and modern Europe. The Jews is comprehensive, enlightening and utterly readable.

Being Red

Being Red is an intimate memoir of an extraordinary time the years Howard Fast, one of our nation’s most popular authors, spent in the American Communist Party, and under the constant surveillance of the FBI. 8 page photo insert.

War and Peace

In more than 100 essays, written over a three year period for the ‘New York Observer’, Howard Fast looks with horror at the official violence inflicted on Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama and Iraq and the unofficial violence that is taking place in the cities of the United States. In ‘War and Peace‘, Fast summons us to face the wars and the social disintegration that degraded the Reagan and Bush years, with all the explanations and excuses stripped away. He dwells on the monumental folly of the Cold War and shows us repeatedly what we could have done with the billions spent on planes, bombs and guns if we had spent them on the education and safety of our children, on housing, medical care, rebuilding the cities and what we can still do in the future. As in Swift, Yahoos populate the essays of this book: the drug dealers; the local political hacks; the anti Semites; the racists; the women bashers; the arms traffickers: the whole unsavory cast. As in Mencken, bo*obs run loose in the White House and in the halls of Congress. From time to time, a Candide like character named D’emas Yiddish for the ‘the truth’ appears and asks embarrassing questions about the ways of our civilisation, which his interlocutor is hard pressed to answer. And yet, after Howard Fast recounts the inanity and brutality of these years, he offers a humane vision of what America and the rest of the world could be. These essays should hold a place in 20th century letters as a statement of unsurpassed passion on the theme: War and Peace.