Publisher's Synopsis
This text is both a personal memoir and an interpretation of the critical quarter-century in which present-day America was shaped. Some of the most celebrated names of the era - including H.L. Mencken, Alfred A. Knopf, Malcolm Cowley, Michael Gold, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammet, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joe McCarthy and Harry S. Truman - are discussed here.;These are some of the people whom Bernard Smith met and with whom he interacted. They themselves, and the social, political and cultural trends they represented, are regarded from a frankly leftist viewpoint. Adopting the stance that this point of view has recently become an uncommon way of looking at those tumultous years, the book aims to offer a supplement to more formal histories of this seminal period.
