Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years

, by Pells, Richard

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ISBN: 9780252067433 | 0252067436
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/1/1998

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PREFACE TO THE 1998 EDITION

(4)

PREFACE TO THE 1984 EDITION

(2)

INTRODUCTION

xvii

I. PROLOGUE--PROGRESSIVISM AND THE 1920S

(42)

1. The Dynamics of Prewar Reform

(8)

2. The Political Mood of the 1920s

(11)

3. Values, Morals, and Life-Styles

(12)

4. The Artist in Exile

(10)

II. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT, 1929-1935

(53)

1. Responses to the Crash

(6)

2. The Challenge to Liberalism

(12)

3. The Attraction to Russia

(8)

4. Alternatives to Capitalism

(7)

5. The Election of 1932

(2)

6. The New Deal and Its Critics

(8)

7. Waiting for the Revolution

(3)

8. Toward a Social Democracy

(7)

III. THE SEARCH FOR COMMUNITY

(55)

1. Cultural Radicalism

(15)

2. The Appeal of Collectivism

111

(7)

3. The Individual and Society

118

(7)

4. Marx in America

125

(15)

5. The Existential Strain

140

(8)

6. Toward a New Ideology

148

(3)

IV. LITERARY THEORY AND THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUAL

151

(43)

1. The Writer and Society

151

(10)

2. The Nature of Commitment

161

(8)

3. Toward a Proletarian Culture

169

(12)

4. Voices in Oppposition

181

(6)

5. The Radical as Critic

187

(7)

V. DOCUMENTARIES, FICTION, AND THE DEPRESSION

194

(58)

1. The Quest for the Social Fact

195

(7)

2. Novels of Protest, Politics, and the Proletariat

202

(17)

3. Visions of the Apocalypse

219

(7)

4. The Voice of the Self

226

(14)

5. The Conservative Ethic

240

(6)

6. Radicalism and Art: The Achievement of James Agee

246

(6)

VI. THE RADICAL STAGE AND THE HOLLYWOOD FILM IN THE 1930S

252

(40)

1. The Rise and Fall of the Workers' Theater

252

(11)

2. The Appeal of the Mass Media

263

(5)

3. From Little Caesar to Citizen Kane

268

(24)

VII. THE DECLINE OF RADICALISM, 1935-1939

292

(38)

1. The Politics of the Popular Front

292

(7)

2. The Liberal Mind in the Late 1930s

299

(3)

3. Crises at Home and Abroad

302

(8)

4. The Rediscovery of America

310

(9)

5. The End of Ideology

319

(11)

VIII. FROM DEPRESSION TO WAR

330

(35)

1. The Politics of Anti-Stalinism

331

(3)

2. The Pilgrimage of Partisan Review

334

(12)

3. The New Mandarins

346

(16)

4. The Spirit of Pearl Harbor

362

(3)

EPILOGUE

365

(4)

NOTES

369

(26)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

395

(16)

INDEX

411

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Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years

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