Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1
Chapter 1. Steinbeck: 1934–1939
Chapter 2. Wright: 1933–1939
Chapter 3. Hemingway: 1932–1939
Chapter 4. Synthesis: Three Pulls to the Left
Part 2
Chapter 5. The Grapes of Wrath: Passionate Contradictions
Chapter 6. Native Son: Who Is Bigger Thomas?
Chapter 7. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Robert Jordan’s (and Ernest Hemingway’s) “True Book”
Part 3
Chapter 8. Falling Away
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index