Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-543) and index.
Contents
Waiting for lefty -- Marching on MayDay : cultural politics -- Ballads for Americans : aesthetic ideologies -- The decline and fall of the Lincoln republic : Dos Passos's U.S.A. -- "The literary class war" : rethinking proletarian literature -- "The tenement thinking" : ghetto pastorals -- Grapes of wrath : "the art and science of migratin'" -- Labor on revue : the popular front musical theater -- Cabaret blues -- The politics of magic : Orson Welles's allegories of anti-fascism -- "Who's afraid of big bad Walt?" : Disney's radical cartoonists -- American culture and socialist theory -- Conclusion : the old left : eleven outlined epitaphs.
