He made the relatively unknown or forgotten history of the United States accessible to millions of Americans in books like
The Last Frontier, and as a correspondent for the radio program that would become the Voice of America, he was entrusted with the job of assuring millions of foreigners of the country's greatness and benevolence during World War II.
Yet even after Fast learned of Stalin's atrocities, which convinced him that he had been betrayed by the Communist party and caused him to break his ties with it, he did not regret the decision he had made in 1944. His experience as the target of political persecution evoked some of his best and most popular works, including Spartacus, which became a major motion picture--directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas--as well as a best-selling book. It also led Fast to establish his own publishing house, the Blue Heron Press, and to write the first book in a well-received series of suspense novels under the pseudonym E.
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