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The Political Fiction of Ward Just
Class, Theories of Representation, and Imagining a Ruling Elite
David Smit
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Names: Smit, David, 1944- author.
Title: The political fiction of Ward Just : class, theories of representation, and imagining a ruling elite / David Smit.
Description: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "The Political Fiction of Ward Just uses literary, political, and diplomatic frameworks to demonstrate how the upper-class status of the ruling elites in Ward Just's political fiction influences the way they represent the interests of the nation's citizens domestically and the interests of the nation as a whole internationally"-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020007447 (print) | LCCN 202000748 (ebook) | ISBN 9781793615329 (cloth) | ISBN 9781793615336 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Just, Ward S.--Criticism and interpretation. | Elite (Social sciences) in literature. | Upper class in literature. | Politics in literature.
Classification: LCC PS3560.U75 Z65 2020 (print) | LCC PS3560.U75 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54--dc23
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Ward Just, who died on December 19, 2019, as I was preparing the final manuscript for submission. In the biographical sections of the book I often use the present tense to refer to information and opinions that Ward communicated to me during our interviews, conveying the sense that he is still alive. Despite his death, I decided to maintain that use of the present tense in order to distinguish Ward’s more recent thinking aloud during our interviews from what he had stated earlier in print.
Three months before he died, Ward gave me permission to cite material from his archive and my interviews with him. I interviewed Ward in person for only two afternoons on Martha’s Vineyard in January of 2015, but we continued the interviews by telephone once or twice a month for the next three and a half years: until the fall of 2018. Our relationship was professional but congenial. Ward was a grand storyteller and a significant witness to major events in our national life, and I will always consider my conversations with him to be one of the high points of my life.
