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“... their naive enthusiasm for the USSR. The League of American Writers, however, did not change tack. Franklin Folsom, in this history of the League, puts the case for its consistent neutrality in a series of rather curious arguments. He concedes that the Moscow pact shocked some, but ‘the Soviet Union seemed to be a basically good society, and we hated to ...”

“... as historian and philosopher). He is to be found appealing, almost like a Lilburne or Benjamin Franklin, to human ‘rights’, an oddly anachronistic concept; ready, too, to invoke those obfuscating concepts ‘bourgeoisie’, ‘proletariat’ and ‘the masses’, terms that cry out for his own brand of deconstruction. One feels, again, about his theory ...”

“... so many members of the white working class have abandoned their loyalty to the Democratic Party of Franklin D. Roosevelt and decided to vote for candidates whose policies, including tax cuts for the rich, hostility to trade unions and an embrace of economic globalisation, undermine their own economic interests. In perhaps the most widely read book on the ...”