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Alan M. Wald

Author of The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s

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About the Author

Alan M. Wald is professor of English literature and American culture at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

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Series

Literary Left Trilogy

Works by Alan M. Wald

The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s (1987) 97 copies

Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left (2002) 47 copies

Trotskyism in the United States: Historical Essays and Reconsiderations (1996) — Editor — 34 copies

Writing from the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics (1994) 22 copies

American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War (2012) 17 copies

Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade (2007) 15 copies

The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Selected Essays on Marxist Traditions in Cultural Commitment (1992) 10 copies

James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years (The Gotham library of the New York University Press) (1978) 8 copies

The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan (1983) 7 copies

Alan M. Wald's American Literary Left Trilogy, Omnibus E-Book: Includes American Night, Trinity of Passion, and Exiles from a Future Time (2012) 1 copy

"The End of "American Trotskyism"? (two part article) 1 copy

'Sculptor on the Left: Duncan Ferguson's Search for Wholeness' 1 copy

Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left (Historical Materialism) 1 copy

Associated Works

Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History (2008) — Contributor — 180 copies, 2 reviews

Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 119 copies

New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism (1993) — Contributor — 20 copies

Burning Valley (1997) — Introduction, some editions — 15 copies, 2 reviews

Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance (2011) — Contributor — 8 copies

Cry of the Tinamou: Stories (1997) — Introduction, some editions — 6 copies

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s (2018) — Contributor — 5 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1946-06-01
Gender: male
Education: Antioch College, B.A., 1969
University of California, Berkeley, M.A., 1971
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 1974
Occupations: English Literature and American Culture professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Organizations: University of Michigan
Relationships: Dillard, Angela D. (wife)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
Map Location: USA

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Statistics

Works: 13
Also by: 7
Members: 261
Popularity: #88,098
Rating: ½ 3.3

ISBNs: 30

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