1st Edition
Authoritarianism and Class in American Political Fiction Elite Pluralism and Political Bosses in Three Post-War Novels
Introduction
Chapter 1: Class, Elite Pluralism, and Political Bosses
Part I
Chapter 2: Robert Penn Warren and Huey Long’s Louisiana: 1928–32
Chapter 3: A Class Analysis of All the King’s Men
Part II
Chapter 4: Edwin O’Connor and James Michael Curley’s Boston: 1914–50
Chapter 5: A Class Analysis of The Last Hurrah
Part III
Chapter 6: Billie Lee Brammer and Lyndon Johnson’s Texas in the1950s
Chapter 7: A Class Analysis of The Gay Place
Conclusion
Biography
David Smit is Professor Emeritus of English at Kansas State University, where he taught for twenty-nine years and was director of the Expository Writing Program for two five-year terms. His special interests are writing theory, Henry James, modern drama, and post-war American literature and culture, especially the political fiction of the period.
