ABSTRACT
Hicks (1901–82) was an American Marxist critic and literary historian. Author of The Great Tradition (1933), a Marxist study of American literature since the Civil War, and John Reed: The Making of a Revolutionary (1936), Hicks became a Communist Party member in 1934. This is the third and last essay in a series Hicks wrote for the New Republic about novels that dealt with industrial life in America. The first two essays were on John Hay and Robert Herrick, respectively.
