The anxious years: America in the nineteen thirties; a collection of contemporary writings by group of authors..Introduction Revolt in South Dakota by Sherwood Anderson Waiting for nothing by Tom Kromer Journal of forgotten days (September 1934) by Albert Jay Nock
Union Square by Leonard Q. Ross
No comrade by Lauren Gilfillan
Why I am not a communist by John Dewey
Seventy thousand Assyrians by William Saroyan
The vigilante by John Steinbeck
Daughter by Erskine Caldwell
The happiest man on earth by Albert Maltz
Paper work by Heywood Broun
"Still" : meditations of a progessive by Edmund Wilson
The New Deal mentality by H.L. Mencken
Federal theatre introduction by Hallie Flanangan
Triple a plowed under by S.J. Perelman
Waiting for Santy by S.J. Perelman
Bruno and the black sheep by Tess Slesinger
The movement toward the left by John Alroy
from Union Square by Albert Halper
from Citizens by Meyer Levin
from Those who perish by John Wexley
from They shall not die by John Wexley
"I can't sleep" by Clifford Odets
Nightmare number three by Stephen Vincent Benet
No credit: dirge: lullaby by Kenneth Fearing
The intellectuals by Howard Nutt
from America was promises by Archibald Macleish
Power by Muriel Rukeyser
Canto XXXVII, Canto XXXVIII by Ezra Pound
from Eimi by E. E. Cummings
Battle (May-June 1940) by Robinson Jeffers
Four topical pieces by Heywood Brown
Politics by Milton Hindus
from Adventures of a young man by John Dos Passos
An open letter to american intellectuals of Sidney Hook
The fallacy of the theory of social fascism of Sidney Hook
Recent problems of revolutionary literature of William Phillips and Philip Rahv
T.S. Eliot: Leisure class laureate by Ernest Sutherland Bates
Introduction from I'll take my stand by Pare Lorentz
The river by Pare Lorentz