No men are strangers / by Joseph North.

1. The making of an American -- 2. A shipyard - and a university -- 3. A gentleman of the press -- 4. The road turns left -- 5. Hungry America -- 6. Some tattered scholars -- 7. My march through Georgia -- 8. I help found a magazine -- 9. No strike is ever lost -- 10. Newsmen and a newspaper -- 11. Center of the world -- 12. Gathering of heroes -- 13. To the brink and over -- 14. Imperialismo yanqui -- 15.Gone for a soldier -- 16. Marching through Dixie -- 17. To a beloved ragamuffin -- 18. It happened in London -- 19. Red roses for Paris -- 20. Resurrection in Dachau.

"This is a book of affirmation, rare in these troubled days. "Man did not come up from the dried bones of the cave of the atom so that he can blow the world to kingdom come," the author insists. This book tells why this twentieth century man believes that. His conclusions are derived from his extraordinary range of experience. By accident, and by design, the author was eyewitness to many of the fateful turns of contemporary history. The times North saw begin shortly after the turn of the century in a small, dingy Pennsylvania factory city where he was reared in the family of a blacksmith. He describes the typical life of a first-generation American, his early experiences with bigotry and hardship which brought him a time of disenchantment. "But the beginning of wisdom came," he writes, "when I encountered men who introduced me to a philosophy which scientifically explained Man's existence, and indicated the inevitability of his triumph over hunger, oppression and war." The subsequent years brought him the remarkable experiences he describes in the passionate and imaginative style readers know who have followed his writings over the past thirty years. Here we find his on the spot observations of America during the Hunger Years, his participation in the marches of the unemployed until they won unemployment insurance, his associations with workingmen, Negroes, farmers and political leaders. As a newspaperman and editor, he met the writers and artists who made literary and artistic history through out these decades. We are with him in the factories during the great sit-down strikes when modern labor came of age; we are at his side in the Governor's mansion of Atlanta when Governor Gene Talmadge explained his philosophy to him. The reader goes to war with the author during the defense of Republican Spain; and accompanies him on a convoy crossing the Atlantic during World War II. We stand with him in the hell of Dachau's concentration camp the day the war ended in Europe. Throughout the book, the reporter chronicles an age as seen through the eyes of a man of our time, and its impact upon him, "an American who never lost lost faith in the destiny of his country and of humanity." -- from the book jacket