This book was praised by Daniel Aaron as indispensable reading for any student of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, Demonstrates ... "the centrality of Farrell in the literary/political history of those decades."
Alan M. Wald is an American professor emeritus of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and writer of 20th-Century American literature who focuses on Communist writers; he is an expert on the American 20th-Century "Literary Left."