Spartacus
Book description
The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture.
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Fast ran afoul of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and was sent to prison for contempt of Congress.
To him, as to Karl Marx and others, the gladiator Spartacus, who led history’s best-known slave revolt (73 to 71 B.C.), symbolized the proletariat’s revolution against capitalist oppressors and depraved imperialists.
Despite some dubious history and one distasteful distortion concerning the Romans’ exploitation of slaves, Fast’s 1951 novel is a stirring tale, intended “so that the dream of Spartacus may come to be in our own time.”
When no publisher would touch his book, Fast had it printed and distributed on…
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