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Reed provides a sound and well-documented biography, outstanding interpretations of Cantwell's two novels, a breakthrough study of Cantwell's literary criticism, a nice summary of his journalism, and a plausible explanation of his final migration to the Right. -Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English Literature, University of Michigan

This critical study dusts off the largely forgotten work and career of Cantwell... T.V. Reed has performed a service in bringing Robert Cantwell and the topic of proletarian fiction back to the fore. -- Barbara McMichael The Seattle Times A concise literary biography of proletarian novelist Robert Cantwell adds significantly to the revisionist studies of early and midtwentieth-century cultural radicalism Reeds valuable insight into considerations of place might be applied to avoid overgeneralizations about the Communist Party as a homogeneous entityeven when it sought to present itself as such. -- Joel Wendland American Studies Journal Reed's complex and multilayered book on Cantwell will help rescue The Land of Plenty from oblivion. It is also a significant contribution to the project of reconsidering the American literary left of the 1930s... Progressives from our own time have much to learn from that era and from this book. -- Priscilla Long H-Net Reviews

"""Reed provides a sound and well-documented biography, outstanding interpretations of Cantwell's two novels, a breakthrough study of Cantwell's literary criticism, a nice summary of his journalism, and a plausible explanation of his final migration to the Right."" -Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English Literature, University of Michigan"

This critical study dusts off the largely forgotten work and career of Cantwell... T.V. Reed has performed a service in bringing Robert Cantwell and the topic of proletarian fiction back to the fore. -- Barbara McMichael The Seattle Times A concise literary biography of proletarian novelist Robert Cantwell adds significantly to the revisionist studies of early and mid-twentieth-century cultural radicalism... Reed's valuable insight into considerations of place might be applied to avoid overgeneralizations about the Communist Party as a homogeneous entity-even when it sought to present itself as such. -- Joel Wendland American Studies Journal Reed's complex and multilayered book on Cantwell will help rescue The Land of Plenty from oblivion. It is also a significant contribution to the project of reconsidering the American literary left of the 1930s... Progressives from our own time have much to learn from that era and from this book. -- Priscilla Long H-Net Reviews

This critical study dusts off the largely forgotten work and career of Cantwell... T.V. Reed has performed a service in bringing Robert Cantwell and the topic of proletarian fiction back to the fore. -- Barbara McMichael The Seattle Times A concise literary biography of proletarian novelist Robert Cantwell adds significantly to the revisionist studies of early and mid-twentieth-century cultural radicalism... Reed's valuable insight into considerations of place might be applied to avoid overgeneralizations about the Communist Party as a homogeneous entity-even when it sought to present itself as such. -- Joel Wendland American Studies Journal

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T. V. Reed is Buchanan Distinguished Professor at Washington State University. He is also the author of The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle.

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