Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Editorial Note
PART ONE: 1895-1910
Historical Commentary
America, Europe, and Cuba
Women's Suffrage
The Toil of the Laborer
Helps the Municipality Owes the Housewife
The Problem of the Dying Baby
The State of the Negro
The Day of Special Privileges
The Death of Francisco Ferrer
PART TWO: 1911-1928
Historical Commentary
From "The Girl in the Coffin"
From "Life, Art and America"
American Idealism and German Frightfulness
From "More Democracy or Less? An Inquiry"
Dreiser Sees No Progress
A Word Concerning Birth Control
Contribution to "The Rights of a Columnist: A Symposium on the Case of Heywood Broun versus the New York World"
From Dreiser Looks at Russia
PART THREE: 1929-1937
Historical Commentary
Dreiser Discusses Dewey Plan
John Reed Club Answer
Mooney and America
On the Communists and Their Platform
The American Press and American Political Prisoners
Speech on the Scottsboro Case
Interview with Nazife Osman Pasha
From Tragic America
Introduction to Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields
America
The Child and the School
The "Is Dreiser Anti-Semitic?" Correspondence
Flies and Locusts
"They Shall Not Die" Indicts North as Well as the South
Contribution to "Where We Stand"
Dreiser Denies He Is Anti-Semitic
Contribution to "What Is Americanism" A Symposium on Marxism and the American Tradition"
Epic Technologists Must Plan
Mea Culpa!
Statement on Russia and the Struggle against Facism in Spain
Contribution to Symposium, "Is Leon Trotsky Guilty?"
From "A Conversation: Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos"
PART FOUR: 1938-1945
Historical Commentary
War Is a Racket
Equity between Nations
American Democracy against Facism
Loyalist Spain-July 1938
Statement on Anti-Semitism
The Dawn Is in the East
From "Civilization: Where? What?"
Theodore Dreiser and the Free Press
From America Is Worth Saving
From "Writers Declare: "We Have a War to Win!"
Broadcast to the People of Europe
Broadcast to the People of Germany
What to Do
Theodore Dreiser Joins Communist Party
Interdependence
Index