- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (31 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0807826839
- ISBN-13: 978-0807826836
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 16 x 3.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,654,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Wald offers a comprehensive history and reconsideration of the U.S. literary left in the mid-twentieth century. Recovering the central role Marxist-influenced writers played in fiction, poetry, theater, and literary criticism, he explores the lives and work of figures including Richard Wright, Muriel Rukeyser, Mike Gold, Claude McKay, Tillie Olsen, and Meridel Le Sueur.
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On the afternoon of 28 June 1961, the former New Masses editor Joseph Freeman (1897-1965) lugubriously trudged over to the old red-brick Baptist-Congregationalist church on Washington Square South in New York City to attend the memorial service for the writer Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961), dead of lung cancer at age fifty-nine. Read the first page
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On the afternoon of 28 June 1961, the former New Masses editor Joseph Freeman (1897-1965) lugubriously trudged over to the old red-brick Baptist-Congregationalist church on Washington Square South in New York City to attend the memorial service for the writer Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961), dead of lung cancer at age fifty-nine. Read the first page
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