During World War II, he was a correspondent for an anti-fascist magazine, but not content to merely write about the war, Hemingway jumped into battle alongside American soldiers. One of Hemingway’s first paying jobs as a writer was with the Co-Operative Society, an organization devoted to generating solidarity among farmers and laborers in support of workers’ rights, collective bargaining, and the labor movement more broadly. A self-identified socialist throughout most of his life, and as Nicholas Reynolds proves in his book, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961, an occasional spook on behalf of the Soviet Union. Sources not exactly esoteric or obscure-Hemingway’s letters, along with the testimony of his family and friends-demonstrate that the great author was a passionate supporter of Eugene Debbs and Fidel Castro. To miss Hemingway’s commitment to leftist politics requires intense discipline and myopia.
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