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  • American Night

    The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

    by Alan M. Wald ...
    American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald’s multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Trinity of Passion

    The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade

    by Alan M. Wald ...
    The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

    The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s

    by Alan M. Wald ...
    For a generation, Alan M. Wald’s The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. His passionate investigation of over half a century of dissident Marxist thought, Jewish internationalism, fervent political activism, and the complex art of the literary ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Exiles from a Future Time

    The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left

    by Alan M. Wald ...
    With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Alan M. Wald's American Literary Left Trilogy, Omnibus E-Book

    Includes American Night, Trinity of Passion, and Exiles from a Future Time

    by Alan M. Wald ...
    Offered here for the first time as an Omnibus E-Book, this collection brings together Alan M. Wald’s ground-breaking trilogy.American Night, the final volume of this unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald’s multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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