Political Writings

"This expertly edited collection will give general readers and specialists interested in Theodore Dreiser a fresh and timely new context for thinking about the author. The selections here and insights by Jude Davies provide new grounds for understanding Dreiser as an American writer of the highest importance."--Clare Virginia Eby, editor of Theodore Dreiser's The Genius and author of Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo

"Although not formally a political theorist, Dreiser wrote as a citizen who spent his creative energies observing the American scene. He was prolific in his field and influential in his day. This is indeed a book whose time has come. Jude Davies's commentaries make sense of a protean writer, exploring Dreiser's ideas in the context of the dynamics of his historical moment."--James L. W. West III, general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Theodore Dreiser: Political Writings clearly helps to connect the dots among his many novels."--Resources for American Literary Study