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Title American points of view : a reader's guide, 1935 / edited by William H. Cordell and Kathryn Coe Cordell.

Imprint Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Haldeman-Julius Collection  814.5208 Am35 1935    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxiv, 461 p. ; 21 cm.
Note "The second volume of a series designed to present annually the outstanding articles and essays published in American magazines ... Contains essays selected from those published between June 1934 and September 1935." The first volume appeared under title: Molders of American thought.--Foreword.
Contents Notes on the next war / Ernest Hemingway -- Why liberalism is bankrupt / Nathaniel Peffer -- Was Europe a success? / Joseph Wood Krutch -- I was marching / Meridel Le Sueur -- Idealism's bank holiday / Louise Maunsell Field -- Alleged failure of democracy / Ralph Barton Perry -- Radicals' betrayal / John J. Smertenko -- We are more than economic men / Henry A. Wallace -- Decay of self-reliance / Newton D. Baker -- Thoughts on utopia / Albert Jay Nock -- American comes home / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Who are the Americans? / Earl Browder -- Our illusions regarding government / Mary van Kleeck -- Women and communism / Rebecca Pitts -- Just why economics? / Herbert Agar.
Who bred these utopias? / Charles Magee Adams -- Unfound generation / George Soule -- I was a rich man's son / Croswell Bowen -- Southern mountaineers / Anne W. Armstrong -- Revolution by electricity / Paul Hutchinson -- Price of comfort / Robert Littell -- Right to be let alone / Newman Levy -- Statistician's dream / Burges Johnson -- Prepare for neutrality / Charles Warren -- How we entered the last war / Walter Millis -- Price of neutrality / George Soule -- What is this sea power? / Charles A. Beard.
Hard times and the author / Edward Weeks -- Writer and revolution / Archibald MacLeish -- Literature in the planned state / Henry Seidel Canby -- Fiction mirrors America / Newton Arvin -- Youth and poetry / Lee Wilson Dodd -- Advice to unborn novelists / Pearl S. Buck -- Down with the novel / Robert Forsythe -- This progressive education / Joachim Friedrich -- Human waste in the colleges / John R. Tunis -- American victorian / Robert Hillyer -- Hawaii, Washington, Vermont / Genevieve Taggard.
Subject American essays -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1919-1945.
Added Author Cordell, William Howard, 1908-
Cordell, Kathryn Coe.

 
    
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