Harry Golden: Bestselling author, raconteur, and advocate for civil rights with his irreverent newspaper, The Carolina Israelite

Master networker

Golden was an indefatigable networker and promoter. One of his favorite ploys was to add a well-known author, philanthropist, politician, or actor to the Carolina Israelite circulation list without the celebrity’s knowledge, then mention the famous person in print as one of the newspaper’s loyal subscribers. Many real connections grew out of his name-dropping. Golden's rich, wide-ranging correspondence demonstrates his ability to aggressively promote civil rights causes and bring attention to his own role in the movement -- while revealing his gift for befriending the exalted literati and the shamed prison inmate, the conservative and the radical, the artist and the cleric.
 

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