The Years of Anger by Randall Swingler is the best book of 1946.
During the 1930s, Randall Swingler (1909-67) was a well-known public figure in Britain. A committed Communist, endowed with both charm and formidable energy, he published poetry and critical articles, edited literary/political magazines and organized cultural events. In 1939, for example, he put on a ‘Festival of Music and the People’ that filled the Albert Hall. This featured music by a variety of composers such as Vaughan Williams, and the star singer was Paul Robeson; Swingler himself wrote the text for the historical pageant that constituted one of the three concerts.