The Roosevelt era / by Milton Crane, with a foreword by Jonathan Daniels.

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Cont.: Epigraph: quotation from Roosevelt's first inaugural address -- Vag / John Dos Passos -- Washington weekend / Morris Markey -- The first Roosevelt year / Walter Lippmann -- New Deal honeymoon / Frederick Lewis -- The cave dwellers / Joseph Mitchell -- Mrs. Maddison returns to the land / Martha Gellhorn -- Jobs in the sky / Tess Slesinger -- Four stories / William March, Hilaire Hiler, Paul Engle, Kay Boyle -- Waiting for Santy / S.J. Perelman -- Redder than the Roosevelts / Heywood Broun -- I paint what I see / E.B. White -- Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's city / Archibald MacLeish -- The people's dividend ; Decentralization / David Lilienthal -- Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw -- It can't happen here / Sinclair Lewis -- The people, yes / Carl Sandburg -- Epigraph: quotation from Roosevelt's second inauguration -- Democratic suicide (1937-1938) / Jay Franklin -- The folklore of 1937 / Thurman Arnold -- Beaters of breasts / H.L. Mencken -- Tommy Gallagher's crusade / James T. Farrell -- Nazi meeting / Richard O. Boyer -- Liberal in a lounge car / E.B. White -- The cliché expert testifies as a Roosevelt hater / Frank Sullivan -- Time, life, fortune, Luce / Wolcott Gibbs -- Portrait of the intellectual as a Yale man / Mary McCarthy -- What are the Leftists saying? / James Thurber -- Union president: Joseph Curran / Richard O. Boyer -- Metropolis and her children / Federal Writers Project -- Triple-A plowed under / Federal Theatre Plays -- The river / Pare Lorentz -- Politics over Hollywood / Leo C. Rosten -- Black beans and white beans: Dr. George Gallup / Russell Maloney and A.J. Liebling -- "Being in a troublesome world": the historical setting / Hadley Cantril -- New tenants / Jonathan Daniels -- The People vs. Abe Lathan, colored / Erskine Caldwell -- The happiest man on earth / Albert Maltz -- From The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- Nightmare with angels / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Weep in years to come /