{"product_id":"the-last-titan-a-life-of-theodore-dreiser","title":"The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot  colloquial language  and immoralityfor  as one reviewer put it  its depiction of \"the godless side of American life.\" It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser  whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent  turn-of-the-century era of immigrants  black lynchings  ruthless industrialists  violent labor movements  and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography  the first on Dreiser in more than half a century  is the only study to fully weave Dreisers literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature.  Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time  not only because of his literary efforts  which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking An American Tragedy in 1925  but also because of his personal life  which featured numerous sexual liaisons  included membership in the communist party  merited a 180-page FBI file  and ended in Hollywood. The Last Titan paints a full portrait of the mature Dreiser between the two world warsthrough the roaring twenties  the stock market crash  and the Depressionand describes his contact with important figures from Emma Goldman and H.L. Mencken to two presidents Roosevelt. Tracing Dreisers literary roots in Hawthorne  Emerson  Thoreau  and especially Whitman  Loving has written what will surely become the standard biography of one of Americas best novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984021811253,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520234812","price":38.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520234819.jpg?v=1770819008","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-last-titan-a-life-of-theodore-dreiser","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}