Trinity of Passion

“A valuable addition to scholarship on the history of left-wing Jews. . . . Informative [and] richly detailed.”—American Jewish History

“Wald’s meticulously researched thumbnail biographies of individual writers, many of them hitherto little-known, amount to far more than literary-historical detective work.”—Science & Society

“A vibrant and insightful reading of American sociopolitical literary culture.”—Contemporary Jewry

“Wald’s enterprise is distinguished by his sympathy for his writers' existential struggle and his expansive notion of [literature]. . . . One could use his work to assemble a respectable mid-twentieth-century canon of pop Modernist and social realist left literature. . . . [Wald’s] complicating of the received canon and deepening of individual political conflicts . . . makes one look forward to the final panel of his triptych.”—The Nation

“Wald skillfully and knowledgeably handles the political motives, context, and implications of those writers' works.”—Journal of American History

“Readable and informative. . . . A garden of reader delights.”—Jewish Book World

“Recommended.” — CHOICE

“Unveils prodigious original research. . . . [It] enhances America’s moral development by bringing the past into present conversation.” — American Literature

“Relevant and . . . timely. . . . A worthy addition to the study of radical literature. . . . Wald’s meticulous research, extensive notes, and photographs of the authors he studies present a vivid image of lives free from intellectual terrorism and far from retreat.” — Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association

“[A] remarkable work in commemorating the lives of this talented and largely forgotten generation.” — 7Days