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Watershed, Matthew Doyle
Alistair Cooke: A Response To Granville Hicks' I Like America, Kathleen Manwaring
Alistair Cooke: A Response To Granville Hicks' I Like America, Kathleen Manwaring
The Courier
Written at the urging of his friend Louis Birk, managing editor of Modern Age Books, I Like America was Granville Hicks' attempt to present to a middle-class audience "the official line of the Communist Party in the Popular Front period". Published when the slogan 'Communism is Twentieth-Century Americanism' identified the interests of the mass of the American population, which was suffering from the Depression and the inadequate response of the New Deal for relief, with the aims of the Party, the book was later described by Hicks as "a venture in propaganda". The Granville Hicks Papers in the George Arents …