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Harry Lewis Golden (May 6, 1902 – October 2, 1981) was a Jewish-American writer and newspaper publisher. ==Life and career== Golden was born Herschel Goldhirsch in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Ukraine, then part of Austria-Hungary.〔("Gale Encyclopedia of Biography: Harry Golden" (2006) ), ''answers.com''.〕 His mother was Romanian and his father Austrian. In 1904 his father, Leib Goldhirsch, emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, only to move the family to New York City the next year. For a time he worked as a newspaper seller on the Lower East Side, and could remember shouting out headlines about the Leo Frank case, which he later wrote a book about.〔Golden, Harry ''The Lynching of Leo Frank''〕 He became a stockbroker but lost his job in the 1929 crash. Convicted of mail fraud, Golden served five years in a Federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia. In 1941, he moved to Charlotte, where, as a reporter for the ''Charlotte Labor Journal'' and ''The Charlotte Observer'', he wrote about and spoke out against racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws of the time.〔Pressman Fuentes, Sonia, ("Harry Golden & the Coat" ), ''The Jewish Magazine'', October 1998.〕 From 1942 to 1968, Golden published ''The Carolina Israelite'' as a forum, not just for his political views (including his satirical "The Vertical Negro Plan", which involved removing the chairs from any to-be-integrated building, since Southern whites didn't mind standing with blacks, only sitting with them), but also observations and reminiscences of his boyhood in New York's Lower East Side. He traveled widely: in 1960 to speak to Jews in West Germany and again to cover the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel for ''Life''. He is referenced in the lyrics to Phil Ochs' song, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal": "You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden." In 1974, he, William Calley of the My Lai Massacre, and other convicted criminals received a presidential pardon from Richard Nixon. Calvin Trillin devised the Harry Golden Rule, which states that "in present-day America it's very difficult, when commenting on events of the day, to invent something so bizarre that it might not actually come to pass while your piece is still on the presses."〔Winokur, Jon, ed. ''The Portable Curmudgeon''. NAL Books, 1987, p. 79.〕 His books include three collections of essays from the ''Israelite'' and a biography of his friend, poet Carl Sandburg. One of those collections, ''Only in America'', was the basis for a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. He also maintained a correspondence with Billy Graham. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry Golden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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