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CONTENTS
I
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Epigraph: quotation from Roosevelt's first inaugural address1
John Dos Passos: Vag3
Morris Markey: Washington Weekend5
Walter Lippmann: The First Roosevelt Year10
Frederick Lewis Allen: New Deal Honeymoon13
Joseph Mitchell: The Cave Dwellers32
Martha Gellhorn: Mrs. Maddison Returns to the Land38
Tess Slesinger: Jobs in the Sky52
William March, Hilaire Hiler, Paul Engle, Kay Boyle: Four Stories66
S. J. Perelman: Waiting for Santy70
Heywood Broun: Redder than the Roosevelts73
E. B. White: I Paint What I See75
Archibald MacLeish: Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City77
David Lilienthal: The People's Dividend85
David Lilienthal: Decentralization95
Irwin Shaw: Bury the Dead105
Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here141
Carl Sandburg: The People, Yes148
II
Epigraph: quotation from Roosevelt's second inaugural address152
Jay Franklin: Democratic Suicide (1937-1938)153
Thurman Arnold: The Folklore of 1937160
H. L. Mencken: Beater of Breasts184
James T. Farrell: Tommy Gallagher's Crusade195
Richard O. Boyer: Nazi Meeting225
E. B. White: Liberal in a Lounge Car234
Frank Sullivan: The Cliché Expert Testifies as a Roosevelt Hater237
Wolcott Gibbs: Time . . . Life . . . Fortune . . . Luce242
Mary McCarthy: Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man253
James Thurber: What Are the Leftists Saying?298
Richard O. Boyer: Union President: Joseph Curran301
Federal Writers Project: Metropolis and Her Children315
Federal Theatre Plays: Triple-A Plowed Under330
Pare Lorentz: The River346
Leo C. Rosten: Politics over Hollywood355
Russell Maloney and A. J. Liebling: Black Beans and White Beans: Dr. George Gallup370
Hadley Cantril: "Being in a Troublesome World": The Historical Setting378
Jonathan Daniels: New Tenants385
Erskine Caldwell: The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored394
Albert Maltz: The Happiest Man on Earth401

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