TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wernick, Robert
TI  - Jack London
SN  - 1640190457
U1  - PS3523.O46 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Rockville (Md.)
PB  - New Word City
KW  - London, Jack, 1876-1916
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Authors, American - 20th century - Biography
KW  - �Ecrivains am�ericains - 20e si�ecle - Biographies
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Literary
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM - American - General
KW  - Authors, American
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N2  - Article Abstract: Nothing in Jack London's life was unequivocal. He was a self-taught man whose lack of formal education gave him no coherent structure for his views. His convictions as a socialist were constantly at war with his frontier individualism; his proclivities as a carouser belied his lofty principles. He empathized with underdogs ranging from Mexicans and lepers to the African-American boxer Jack Johnson, but he uncritically accepted California prejudices about Asian immigration and "the yellow peril." Here, in this essay by award-winning journalist Robert Wernick, the story of America's first working-class writer
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