American Moderns Author:Maxwell Geismar "A penetrating analysis of American fiction at mid-century . . . the transitional decade from the Second World War to the present. The first section . . . [deals with] the social, moral, aesthetic atmosphere of the period. Part Two deals with the declining classic moderns [Dreiser, Hemingway, dos Passos, Faulkner, Lewis, Wolfe, Cozzens]. The ... more »final section appraises the work of the newcomers [Mailer, Hersey, Algren, Salinger, Bellow, Jones, Styron, Griffin]."« less