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The American writer and the great depression
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xli, 521 p. : ill ; 21 cm. - Publisher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1966]
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: p. xxxvii-xli. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. Miners, millhands, factory workers : Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington. The disinherited / Jack Conroy ; Puzzled America / Sherwood Anderson ; These are our lives ; The land of plenty / Robert Cantwell ; Variations on a baedecker / Stanley Burnshaw -- pt. 2. Farmers, sharecroppers, tenants, migrants : Iowa, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi. The executioner waits ; Rope of gold / Josephine Herbst ; The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck ; Some American people / Erskine Caldwell ; Let us now praise famous men / James Agee -- pt. 3. Hungry women and faltering homes : Minnesota, Colorado, New York. Women on the breadlines / Meridel Le Sueur ; I should worry / Weldon Kees ; My America / Louis Adamic ; The reckoning / Theodore Roethke -- pt. 4. Jobhunting : everywhere. Puzzled America / Sherwood Anderson ; Studs Lonigan / James T. Farrell ; Boy with his hair cut short / Muriel Rukeyser -- pt. 5. Hitting bottom : on the road, in the ring, on the bum. You can't sleep here / Edward Newhouse ; From Flushing to Calvary / Edward Dahlberg ; The American earthquake / Edmund Wilson ; Somebody in boots / Nelson Algren ; Dempsey, Dempsey / Horace Gregory ; Waiting for nothing / Tom Kromer -- pt. 6. Concern and hope : vets, Negroes, CIO, TVA, CCC. Veterans on the march / Jack Douglas ; 12 million Black voices / Richard Wright ; Speech from a forthcoming play / E.E. Cummings ; Industrial valley / Ruth McKenney ; The cradle will rock / Marc Blitzstein ; Puzzled America / Sherwood Anderson -- pt. 7. Organizers, capitalists, fascists, communists : "guys like me and you." Devil's dream / Kenneth Fearing ; USA / John Dos Passos ; A cool million / Nathanael West ; A letter on the use of machine guns at weddings / Kenneth Patchen -- pt. 8. America : the grand view. Speech to those who say comrade / Archibald MacLeish ; Let America be America again / Langston Hughes ; You can't go home again / Thomas Wolfe. |
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