Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Arts

Echoes from “Cesar Chavez” reverberate to today
April 10, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon And Dale Greenfield
Go see the film. It's flawed, but its heart is in the right place.
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Arts

“Shoeleather History” brings rambunctious New England Wobblies to life
April 10, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon
Generally speaking, grassroots labor movements, the Wobblies in particular, don't receive histories on a state-by-state basis.
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Arts

“Floyd Collins”: heaps of social commentary on musical stage
April 8, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon
One day in late January 1925, while searching out a new entrance to the underground,Floyd Collins fell into a narrow crawlway, got trapped there, and ultimately died of starvation and exposure on Friday, February 13.
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Arts

“Harmony”: A band in Nazi Germany, a powerful, Broadway-ready musical
March 24, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon
Besides the theme of harmony itself, another theme of Manilow and Sussman's show is regret: both living with it, and living so as not having to regret.
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Arts

Star-studded “Monuments Men” asks: Is art worth fighting for?
March 18, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon
A historical drama of saving 1,000 years of our cultural heritage. in the knowledge that if Hitler went down, he would take with him to the grave the treasure house of Western Civilization just out of...
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Arts

A dramatic meditation on freedom: “The Whipping Man”
March 11, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon
It's1865. Slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home, and in Jewish homes the freedom festival of Passover is being celebrated. Into war-torn Richmond comes a young, severely wounded Jewish Confederate officer.
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World

No quiet on the eastern front: “Stalingrad”
March 11, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon And Dale Greenfield
Based loosely on Soviet author Vasily Grossman's novel, "Life and Fate," the film Stalingrad is a treatment of World War II's "bloodiest battle in human history."
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Arts

“Calpurnia Tate”: a girl comes of age in Texas
March 7, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon
Jacqueline Kelly's engrossing young adult novel set on on a Texas cotton and pecan farm with 338 pages that seemingly turn themselves, is a coming of age tale with vast relevance for today's readers.
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