| PREFACE TO THE 1998 EDITION | | xi | (4) |
| PREFACE TO THE 1984 EDITION | | xv | (2) |
| INTRODUCTION | | xvii | |
| I. PROLOGUE--PROGRESSIVISM AND THE 1920S | | | 1 | (42) |
| 1. The Dynamics of Prewar Reform | | | 2 | (8) |
| 2. The Political Mood of the 1920s | | | 10 | (11) |
| 3. Values, Morals, and Life-Styles | | | 21 | (12) |
| | | 33 | (10) |
| II. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT, 1929-1935 | | | 43 | (53) |
| 1. Responses to the Crash | | | 43 | (6) |
| 2. The Challenge to Liberalism | | | 49 | (12) |
| 3. The Attraction to Russia | | | 61 | (8) |
| 4. Alternatives to Capitalism | | | 69 | (7) |
| | | 76 | (2) |
| 6. The New Deal and Its Critics | | | 78 | (8) |
| 7. Waiting for the Revolution | | | 86 | (3) |
| 8. Toward a Social Democracy | | | 89 | (7) |
| III. THE SEARCH FOR COMMUNITY | | | 96 | (55) |
| | | 96 | (15) |
| 2. The Appeal of Collectivism | | | 111 | (7) |
| 3. The Individual and Society | | | 118 | (7) |
| | | 125 | (15) |
| 5. The Existential Strain | | | 140 | (8) |
| | | 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) |
| | | 181 | (6) |
| | | 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) |
| | | 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) |
| | | 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) |
| | | 346 | (16) |
| 4. The Spirit of Pearl Harbor | | | 362 | (3) |
| EPILOGUE | | 365 | (4) |
| NOTES | | 369 | (26) |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | | 395 | (16) |
| INDEX | | 411 | |
