A truly remarkable collection of essays, poems, diary entries, and personal narratives regarding the Communist movement and party in the US. Organized chronologically, the documents follow party positions and ideas from 1919 through the union struggles and views of the dissident avant garde and into the period of the "Red Scare" in the US and communist betrayal abroad. The writers featured are an outstanding group of artists and intellectuals, including Carl Sandburg, Clarence Darrow, Langston Hughes, Stuart Davis, Clifford Odets, John Dos Passos, Angela Davis, W.E.B. DuBois, Theodore Dreiser, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, and James Agee (to name a few). Lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.