The Great Depression of the 1930s was more than an economic
catastrophe to many American writers and artists. Attracted to
Marxist ideals, they interpreted the crisis as a symptom of a
deeper spiritual malaise that reflected the dehumanizing effects of
capitalism, and they advocated more sweeping social changes than
those enacted under the New Deal.
In Radical Visions and American Dreams, Richard Pells discusses
the work of Lewis Mumford, John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr, Edmund
Wilson, and Orson Welles, among others. He analyzes developments in
liberal reform, radical social criticism, literature, the theater,
and mass culture, and especially the impact of Hollywood on
depression-era America. By placing cultural developments against
the background of the New Deal, the influence of the American
Communist Party, and the coming of World War II, Pells explains how
these artists and intellectuals wanted to transform American
society, yet why they wound up defending the American Dream. A new
preface enhances this classic work of American cultural
history.
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