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A Maverick Novel* Inspired by a Maverick Man

 

Award-winning, Paul Robeson-inspired Western Novel ALL MAN’S LAND rereleased in expanded edition

 

MINNEAPOLIS, June 24th—David Laszlo Conhaim’s acclaimed Paul Robeson-inspired western novel ALL MAN’S LAND—a 2020 *“Maverick” WINNER in the Will Rogers Medallion Awards and FINALIST Best Novel in the 2020 Western Writers of America Spur Awards—has been rereleased with a companion piece “Don Miguel—The Wise,” partially set during the Spanish Civil War, and which Gore Vidal once “read with delight.”

 

Featured in LA's #1 African-American newspaper, The Los Angeles Wave, recommended for “classrooms and book clubs” by ThyBlackMan.com, and called a “vivid and entertaining tribute novella to Paul Robeson” by late scholar of the Black American West Michael N. Searles, All Man’s Land returns in a new, expanded edition to include another fight against fascism, the Spanish Civil War drama “Don Miguel—The Wise.”

 

Midwest Book Review writes, “In its updated Second Edition, the novel is well worth a revisit as it includes both a fictional essay about Spanish thinker Miguel de Unamuno’s famous confrontation with one of Franco’s generals at the start of the Spanish Civil War and a new Foreword by Conhaim’s longtime editor, which places the combined work squarely in the realm of literary and scholarly excellence.”

 

Paul Robeson, whose life and legacy Conhaim reimagines and transfers to the Old West in All Man’s Land, was an African-American star of stage and screen, a singer, athlete, and a global champion of social and racial justice. Miguel de Unamuno was one of Spain’s most distinguished and controversial thinkers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He died under house arrest that same year. Robeson would sing in Spain months later to the anti-fascist Lincoln Brigade of American volunteer soldiers.

 

All Man’s Land tells the story of an ex-slave, Benjamin Neill, who seeks justice from the lawman who once owned him. “Benjamin is a compelling, multilayered protagonist who moves beyond his Robeson inspiration,” observes Kirkus Reviews, while Searles writing for the Western Writers of America describes the character as a “masterful singer, a political progressive, a man of the people and a prophet . . .”

 

David Laszlo Conhaim is the author of a trilogy about the multiracial struggle for the American West of which All Man’s Land is its chronological climax. Previous titles include Comanche Captive (2017) and The Unredeemed (2021), a Best Novel winner in the Will Rogers Medallion Awards. In 2023, Conhaim published a groundbreaking novel of ancient Rome, Memoirs of Spurius, the first book-length treatment of Roman consul Spurius’ life and times and the Roman Senate’s violent suppression of the cult of Bacchus.

 

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