American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

by Alan M. Wald

Book Overview

American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the Communist worldview was being called into question...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807835862
• ISBN13: 9780807835869
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"