"Foley succeeds admirably in demonstrating that the proletarian novel is indeed worth reexamining from a variety of points of view as an essential way in which we may understand the American 1930s more accurately. This is a really important book in its field, a field wide enough to include not only literature, but history and politics."—Walter Rideout, University of Wisconsin, ... Read moreMadison "[Foley] substantially refutes the received wisdom that writers within the Communist Party and its periphery produced a degraded, politically compromised body of work because they followed a formula dictated from the party leadership. I cannot imagine anyone interested in politics and literature not taking this book as required reading. It will also be of great interest to American Studies, Cultural Studies and historians and sociologists of culture."—Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center Show Less