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  "path": "/2026/03/02/jewish-biography-howard-melvin-fast-novelist/",
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  "textContent": "In 1941, he published The Last Frontier, a novel about the fate of the Cheyenne Indian tribe. In 1943, he published Citizen Tom Paine, and in 1944, Freedom Road, a novel about the Reconstruction period after the Civil War in the United States. [Alex Gordon]",
  "title": "Jewish biography: Howard Melvin Fast, novelist"
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