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Article: Trinity of Passion.(Book review)
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- The Antioch Review
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- June 22, 2007
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Trinity of Passion
by Alan M. Wald. University of North Carolina Press, 344 pp., $34.95. Wald's career has focused on the dynamic relation between American writers and radical politics. He uses manuscript collections skillfully and generates new material through personal interviews and correspondence. His acquaintance with Left writers is wide-ranging.
The twin themes of this book are, first, the struggle of the literary life against fascism abroad; and second, the fight against anti-Semitism and racism at home. Concentrating on the mid 1930s to the end of World War II, when these two struggles interlocked, he shows that in this period there ...
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