Books in the Radical Novel Reconsidered series

A sympathetic novel, which portrays the lives of American Communist activists.

Written from a black perspective by a white author, bears witness to the structural racism of a social order that sets ordinary people of different colors against each other to the disadvantage of all. This book contains stories of humor and humiliation, of prostitution and pride, of love and murder.

Revealing the legacy of the 1930s for the war years and the McCarthy era, this book explores the personal impact of hard political reality with which the author himself has been so well acquainted. It follows Carl Myers, who progresses from an objective interest in scientific problems to a concern with the human implications of those problems.

The Federal Arts Projects were created by FDR in the summer of 1935. A year later, a handful of writers employed in the St Louis office of the Missouri Writers' Project, including Jack Balch, went out on strike. This title describes this strike and treats comprehensively various aspects of the Federal Writers' Project.