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Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success. All three were involved with the Left, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton Cohen examines their motives for involvement with the Left; their novels’ political themes; and why they separated from the Left.
Trade ReviewThese three writers are at last placed side by side, revealing how close their mindsets were, yet how different each was from the other. A significant contribution to American literary criticism."" - Earle Bryant, editor of
Byline, Richard Wright: Articles from the Daily Worker and New Masses""Cohen does an admirable job of explicating how these authors responded to the rise of the Popular Front and other leftist movements: Steinbeck’s concern with homegrown fascism, Hemingway's involvement in Loyalist Spain, and Wright's belief that racism reflected fascist impulses."" - Gary Holcomb, co-editor of
Hemingway and the Black Renaissance
