The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Theodore Dreiser
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Radically American: Theodore Dreiser and His Call to Fix Democracy
The American novelist Theodore Dreiser recognized that “only the mass can get America out of the mess,” something that was true in 1941 and arguably even truer today in 2013.
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Radically American: Theodore Dreiser and "America is Worth Saving"
The American novelist reflected on double standards for the poor and rich, and crafted a vigorous argument against U.S. engagement in World War II that speaks clearly to America's failed military ventures of the last decade.
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This 4th of July, Remembering Theodore Dreiser and What "Radically American" Means
Unlike his fiction, Dreiser’s political prose is less well known. But today's conditions of corruption and inequality again, as in his time, demand us to be “radically American”: a term that Dreiser used to describe himself.