Freedom Road, Howard Fast
Freedom Road, Howard Fast
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Freedom Road

Author: Howard Fast

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 9 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/13/2011


Synopsis

It was everywhere. You couldn't talk about the revolution without using the word freedom in the same breath. But Gideon Jackson knew that freedom meant something different if your skin was black. Fast's fictional account of the post Civil War era takes us into the life of Gideon Jackson, a black man, newly freed, and determined to make a difference.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

A fast read, and I really don't know why I did not read this book years ago. It's one of the paperbacks that I got as long ago as the 70s and was sitting in a box for the longest time. First published in 1944, it's a powerful book featuring a strong and most remarkable hero--Gideon Jackson. Gideon i......more

Goodreads review by Jesse

There's so much i want to say, about not only this book but Howard Fast in general, but time is not permitting at the moment. I'll just say for now that I feel that he was and is simultaneously one of the most prolific and successful as well as one of the most slandered and mistreated of American wr......more

Goodreads review by Bill

This book provoked the strongest emotional reaction I've ever had to a book. Made me furious; I've read it 3 times.......more