Table of Contents:
  • From Uncle Tom's cabin to Gone with the wind : writing for a nation in crisis
  • The road : in search of America
  • Dos Passos issues a challenge : can language make a revolution?
  • Boys will be boys : Farrell examines working-class manhood
  • Family history and political identity in Herbst's Trexler trilogy
  • Finding a collective solution : the living newspaper experiment
  • One-third of a nation : the living newspaper comes to Hollywood
  • The search abandoned.