Political Writings

Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Illustrations x Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Introduction xvii Editorial Note xxvii POLITICAL WRITINGS Part One: 1895–1910 Historical Commentary 3 America, Europe, and Cuba 13 Women’s Suffrage 15 The Toil of the Laborer 17 Helps the Municipality Owes the Housewife 25 The Problem of the Dying Baby 29 The State of the Negro 32 The Day of Special Privileges 35 The Death of Francisco Ferrer 37 Part Two: 1911–1928 Historical Commentary 43 From “The Girl in the Coffin” 48 From “Life, Art and America” 50 American Idealism and German Frightfulness 56 From “More Democracy or Less? An Inquiry” 83 Dreiser Sees No Progress 87 A Word Concerning Birth Control 89 Contribution to “The Rights of a Columnist: A Symposium on the Case of Heywood Broun versus the New York World” 94 From Dreiser Looks at Russia 95 Part Three: 1929–1937 Historical Commentary 109 Dreiser Discusses Dewey Plan 121 John Reed Club Answer 123 Mooney and America 127 On the Communists and Their Platform 131 The American Press and American Political Prisoners 132 Speech on the Scottsboro Case 139 Interview with Nazife Osman Pasha 144 From Tragic America 147 Introduction to Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields 162 America 171 The Child and the School 175 Editorial Note on the New Deal and Soviet Policy 176 The “Is Dreiser Anti-Semitic?” Correspondence 176 Flies and Locusts 188 “They Shall Not Die” Indicts North as Well as the South 194 Contribution to “Where We Stand” 196 Dreiser Denies He Is Anti-Semitic 199 Contribution to “What Is Americanism? A Symposium on Marxism and the American Tradition” 200 Epic Technologists Must Plan 202 Mea Culpa! 204 Statement on Russia and the Struggle against Fascism in Spain 208 Contribution to Symposium, “Is Leon Trotsky Guilty?” 209 From “A Conversation: Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos” 211 Part Four: 1938–1945 Historical Commentary 215 War Is a Racket 222 Equity between Nations 229 American Democracy against Fascism 234 Loyalist Spain—July 1938 239 Statement on Anti-Semitism 250 The Dawn Is in the East 253 From “Civilization: Where? What?” 257 Theodore Dreiser and the Free Press 259 From America Is Worth Saving 263 From “Writers Declare: ‘We Have a War to Win!’” 279 Broadcast to the People of Europe 281 Broadcast to the People of Germany 283 What to Do 286 Theodore Dreiser Joins Communist Party 287 Interdependence 291 Index 295 ...