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A book of political and literary criticism written by Algren in the early 1950s but not published until 1996. Starting with an examination of the personal and professional decline of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Algren generalizes about the artistic temperament and the creation of literary reputations. He also links the writer's public role to the politics of his era, maintaining that Americans, trapped "between the H bomb and the A," need to have vocal critics of the establishment to consider and speak for the interests of the powerless. Cynical yet engaged, Algren provides his distinctive analysis and portrait of American society in the first years of the Cold War.
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"...an American literary worldview that should guide the generations of writers to follow him--a quest so ambitious it is hard to think of any other American writer who attempted it since, perhaps, Emerson in 'Self-Reliance.'...Written during 1952 and 1953, 'Nonconformity' is rich in the horrors of the period...[but it] could hardly be more relevant to our own time..."
Washington Post Book World - Gerald Nicosia (09/15/1996)
"A previously unpublished work from the author of 'The Man With the Golden Arm' and other masterful portraits of the seamy underside of urban America....a typically refreshing breath of cigarette-smoke-filled air from one of our most underrated writers, angry and funny as Algren usually is.
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