The way things are. Revolt in South Dakota / Sherwood Anderson -- Waiting for nothing / Tom Kromer -- Journal of forgotten days (September 1934) / Albert Jay Nock -- Union Square / Leonard Q. Ross -- No comrade / Lauren Gilfillan -- Why I am not a Communist / John Dewey -- Draw thy breath in pain. Seventy thousand Assyrians / William Saroyan -- The vigilante / John Steinbeck -- Daughter / Erskine Caldwell -- The happiest man on earth / Albert Maltz -- The government tried to help. Paper work / Heywood Broun -- "Still"-- : meditations of a progressive / Edmund Wilson -- The New Deal mentality / H.L. Mencken -- Federal theatre introduction / Hallie Flanagan -- Triple a plowed under -- They tried to laugh. Waiting for Santy / S.J. Perelman -- Bruno and the black sheep / Tess Slesinger -- The movement toward the left / John Alroy -- As through a glass darkly -- from Union Square / Albert Halper -- from Citizens / Meyer Levin -- from Those who perish / Edward Dahlberg -- from They shall not die / John Wexley -- Sometimes they seemed to try to sing -- "I can't sleep" / Clifford Odets -- Nightmare number three / Stephen Vincent Benet -- No credit : dirge : lullaby / Kenneth Fearing -- The intellectuals / Howard Nutt -- from America was promises / Archibald Macleish -- Power / Muriel Rukeyser -- Canto XXXVII, Canto XXXVIII / Ezra Pound -- from EIMI / E.E. Cummings -- Battle (May-June, 1940) / Robinson Jeffers -- " 'Tis the final conflict" -- Four topical pieces / Heywood Broun -- Politics / Milton Hindus -- from Adventures of a young man / John Dos Passos -- An open letter to American intellectuals -- The fallacy of the theory of social fascism / Sidney Hook -- Scales and measures -- Recent problems of revolutionary literature / William Phillips and Philip Rahv -- T.S. Eliot : leisure class laureate / Ernest Sutherland Bates -- Introduction from I'll take my stand -- The body of the nation -- The river / Pare Lorentz.