Ezra Slavin is a man of letters, an iconoclast, a gadfly, cultural hero, social activist and lover. Kaplan's story of Slavin's journey from his roots in the ghetto, through a haphazard City College education, a stint in the WPA Writers Project, eventually ending up a famed New England college is a story fill with the fascinating details of the private life of an illustrious public figure. Harper & Row 1980.