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The Pull of Communist Culture The Pull of Politics: Steinbeck, Wright, Hemingway, and the Left in the Late 1930s. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018, vii – 373 pp. $50 Hardcover In this quite readable and accessible study, Milton Cohen describes Communist Party efforts to establish relationships with three major American writers of the 1930s – John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway. Of the three, only Richard Wright became a regular, though conflicted, Party member. Steinbeck and Hemingway, up to the late thirties, declined the Party’s advances. By the late 1930s the American Communist Party had achieved its greatest influence in American society. The Depression and the rise of aggressive fascism in Europe and Asia coincided with a revised Party line. Moscow directed its global affiliates to abandon class struggle and anti-capitalist rhetoric and align themselves with liberal and socialist parties, excluding those who disputed the CP� ....
1910 Western Electric Magneto Wall Phone. Photo by Evelyn Edson. The phone rang in the middle of the night. Miss Edith had just taken off her heavy leg braces, gone to bed, and fallen asleep. But she was “Central,” Scottsville’s telephone exchange, and Edith took her responsibilities seriously, so she made her painful way over to the switchboard. It was a man, clearly drunk and mumbling. “Who are you calling?” she asked. “I want to call Heaven,” he replied. “And who do you want to speak to?” “Jesus,” said the drunk. Edith replied firmly, “Luther Baber, if you don’t get off that phone, I’m going to give you Hell!” And she hung up on him. The caller got so mad that he threw his phone out in the middle of the road, an act he surely regretted the next morning. ....