You're Entitle'
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1962. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 314, [6] pages. Signed by the author on the fep. The dust jacket is worn, torn and soiled. Introduction by Harry Golden, Jr. Author's Note. Golden was born Herschel Goldhirsch (or Goldenhurst) in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Austria-Hungary. For a time, Harry worked as a newspaper seller on the Lower East Side and could remember shouting out headlines about the Leo Frank case about which he later wrote a book. In 1941, he moved to Charlotte, where, as a reporter for the Charlotte Labor Journal and The Charlotte Observer, he wrote about and spoke out against racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws of the time. From 1942 to 1968, Golden published The Carolina Israelite as a forum, not just for his political views but also observations and reminiscences of his boyhood in New York's Lower East Side. He traveled widely: in 1960 to speak to Jews in West Germany and again to cover the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel for Life. He is referenced in the lyrics to Phil Ochs' song, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal": "You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden." His satirical "The Vertical Negro Plan," involved removing the chairs from any to-be-integrated building, since Southern whites did not mind standing with blacks such as at bank tellers' windows, only sitting with them. Golden reportedly convinced a southern department store manager to put an "Out of Order" sign by the water fountain marked White; within three weeks all were drinking from the Colored-designated drinking fountain. Golden's books include three collections of essays from the Israelite and a biography of his friend, poet Carl Sandburg. Among the topics covered include: Barry Goldwater; Jews, Multiple Choice; Hangover, Whisky, Wall Street, Carl Sandburg, Cub Scouts, Mental Illness, Foreign Policy, Parking Meters, Psychiatry, Puerto Rico, Israel, Hawaiians, Common Market, Tel Aviv, Eichmann Trial, Empathy, Unwed Mother, Birth Control, Insomnia, Caruso, Hemingway, Wolfie Gilbert, Jack Paar, James Byrnes, Al Smith, Brendan Behan, Billy Graham, Fluoridation, Swivel Chair, Ben-Gurion, Madison Avenue, salesman, Tourists, Tom Waring, Negro, Integration, Kosher, Pickles, Prayers, Landsman, Yiddish, Nun, Christianity, Evangelists, Rabbi, Cohens, Golf, Landlady, Dixie, and Detroit. The title, "you're entitle'", was the favorite phrase of Golden's immigrant father who never did learn to enunciate the last "d" . as such, it is an uninhibited, exuberant expression of one celebrating freedom found in America. A stockbroker until the 1929 crash and punished for mail fraud (received full pardon from President Nixon) Golden impressively re-invented himself by moving from New York to Charolotte, North Carolina to experience life as "a Jew among gentiles and an integrationist among white supremacists." Observations of an energetic man with a keen eye, empathy, wit, and, above all, one who tempers serious concerns with humor. Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: Barry Goldwater; Jews, Multiple Choice; Hangover, Whisky, Wall Street, Carl Sandburg, Cub Scouts, Mental Illness, Foreign Policy, Parking Meters, Psychiatry, Puerto Rico, Israel, Hawaiians, Common Market, Tel Aviv, Eichmann Trial, Empathy, Unwed Moth
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