Title: Working Class hero
Review: I was assigned this book for a class and found it a great read. West was sort of the Woody Guthrie poet of his times. Coming from the South, and Appalachia, he was also a rare voice for racial unity and a defender of the working man in the 1930s, a position that cost him a number of jobs and led to attacks by the Klan. Overall, I found his work to be really inspiring, even today.There is a strange review below that calls West a beat poet. I don't know what that reviewer is referring to. The beats were an entirely different movement, in another time, and another place. The review is quite odd, actually, and out of place and disses a man who gave his life to the cause of social justice.
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