Excerpt from The Carolina Magazine, Vol. 62: Daily Tar Heel Supplement; October 9, 1932<br><br>Alarmists will throw up their helpless hands in pro test and either close their eyes and holler or try to denounce literary tendencies with their insidious imprecations.<br><br>It is. Evident that by the leftward swing is meant the growing characteristic of writers to con sider political, social, and economic actualities in the formation of their personal philosophies. A few of the fifteen writers admitted that communism as a social philosophy might conceivably become an absorbing ideal. Communism as a party stronghold for writers, however, seemed impractical. John Dos Passos went so far as to say that he didn't see how any novelist or historian could give his loyalty to a party.<br><br>American writers were agreed that the social crisis no longer may be regarded as an unimportant circumstance. The writer must come to terms with it or bring it to terms with him. In its problems.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.