Introduction, by D. Madden.--The two memories: reflections on writers and writing in the thirties, by L. Fiedler.--Back to Bigger, by G. Green.--John Dos Passos' U.S.A.: a 1930's spectacular, by L. Gurko.--Edward Dahlberg, early and late, by J. Chametzky.--Robert Cantwell's Land of plenty, by J. Conroy.--Jack Conroy's the Disinherited; or, The Way it was, by E. Larsen.--Daniel Fuchs' Williamsburg trilogy: a cigarette and window, by I. Howe.--Dalton Trumbo's Johnny got his gun, by L. Kriegel.--B. Traven, pure proletarian writer, by C. H. Miller.--The Roots of radical: experience in the thirties, by M. Klein.--Character and self in fiction on the left, by C. E. Eisinger.--Aesthetics of the proletarian novel, by F. J. Hoffman.--The Marxist aesthetic theory of Louis C. Fraina, by L. Baxandall.--The Education of Michael Gold, By M. B. Folsom.--The Brief embattled course of proletarian poetry, by A. Guttmann.--Notes (p. [270]-274)