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Max Forrester Eastman

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Max Forrester Eastman

Birth
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, USA
Death
25 Mar 1969 (aged 86)
Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
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Max Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. Eastman was a supporter of socialism, a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes but in later life his views turned sharply, and he became an advocate of free market economics and an anti-Communist.
Max Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. Eastman was a supporter of socialism, a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes but in later life his views turned sharply, and he became an advocate of free market economics and an anti-Communist.


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