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Carl Sandburg is most remembered as a biographer of Lincoln, as the author of such schoolroom poems as Chicago and Fog, and as a popular culture hero who lent his name and fame to the political campaigns of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, and John F. Kennedy. One mid-century commentator called him America's cultural sweetheart. Adlai Stevenson said he was the epitome of the American dream. A Sandburg existed, however, who did not resemble the traditional portrait of him. During the first two decades of his long career, the other Carl Sandburg was deeply involved in...

This book situates American literature from the Great Depression to the present day in its historical context

• Explores the issues that engaged American writers from 1929 to the present
• Draws on a range of documents from magazine and newspaper accounts to government reports and important non-fiction
• The book covers political ferment of the 1930s; post-World War II anti-Communism; post-War affluence; suburbanization and demographic change; juvenile delinquency, mental illness and the perception of the U.S. as a -sick- society; and post-1965 immigration
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This book places major literary works within the context of the topics that engaged a great number of American writers in the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression

• Topics include Civil War memory, the virtual re-enslavement of African-Americans after Reconstruction, and radical social movements
• Draws on a range of documents from magazine and newspaper accounts to government reports and important non-fiction
• Presents a contemporary history as writers might have understood it as they were writing, not as historians have...