Damned Agitator

Introduction

Part One
"Three Whose Hatred Killed Them" (Poetry, 1914)
*"A Freshman at Harvard" (Journalism, 1914)
*"Anarchists in Plymouth" (Journalism, 1916)
*"First Aid" (Short Story, 1916)
*"To One Dying" (Poetry, 1916)
"A Damned Agitator" (Short Story, 1917)
"Birth: A Prologue to a Tentative East Side Novel" (Fiction, 1917)
*Money (Drama, 1920)

Part Two
From "Towards Proletarian Art" (Essay, 1921)
"The Password to Thought-to Culture" (Short Story, 1922)
*"Smoke and Steel" (Journalism, 1922)
"The Strange Funeral in Braddock" (Poetry, 1924)
Foreword from 120 Million (Collected Works, 1929)
*"Coal Breaker" (Short Story, 1929)
"Faster, America, Faster!" (Short Story, 1929)
*"The Girl by the River" (Poetry, 1929)
"Lynchers in Frockcoats" (Essay, 1927)
"John Reed and the Real Thing" (Essay, 1927)
"Go Left, Young Writers!" (Editorial Commentary, 1929-1930)
"Art, Crap Shooting, Etc." (Editorial Commentary)
"Letter from a Clam Digger" (Editorial Commentary)
"The New South" (Editorial Commentary)
"The Crisis Deepens" (Editorial Commentary)
"Renegades and Radicals" (Editorial Commentary)
"Give Us Barrabas!" (Editorial Commentary)

Part Three
"Bananas" (Fiction, 1930)
"Wilder: Prophet of the Genteel Christ" (Essay, 1930)
"Proletarian Realism" (Essay, 1930)
From "Why I Am a Communist" (Essay, 1932)
*"Examples of Workers' Correspondence" (Journalism, 1934)
*"Songs for the Masses" (Journalism, 1936)
"They Hated Jane Addams" (Journalism, 1934)
"For a New World Fair" (Journalism, 1934)
"In a Home Relief Station" (Journalism, 1933)
"Just Like Lindbergh's Baby" (Journalism, 1934)
*Battle Hymn, Act III, Scene 1 (Drama, 1936)
*"What Side Are You On?" (Journalism, 1939)

Part Four
"The Second American Renaissance" (Public Address, 1941)
"Renegades: A Warning of the End" (Essay, 1941)
*"The Crime of Lynching and Its Utility to the Southern Ruling Class" (Journalism, 1940)
*"Some Reflections on Richard Wright's Novel, Native Son" (Journalism, 1940)
*"Still More Reflections on Wright's Novel, Native Son" (Journalism, 1940)
*"Pappy Gold Meets Woody and Finds It's Catchin' " (Journalism, 1940)
*"Woody's Songs Full of Poverty and Genuine Dirt: Democracy Is like That" (Journalism, 1943)
*"Some Words on the Loss of a Good Comrade and My Brother" (Journalism, 1946)
*"Further Notes on the Life of a Good Comrade and My Brother" (Journalism, 1946)
*"Final Notes on the Life of a Good Comrade, My Brother" (Journalism, 1946)
"Moe the Barber and the Young Vet" (Journalism, 1946)

Part Five
*From The Honorable Pete, Act I, Scene 7 (Drama, c. 1950)
"Spring in the Bronx" (Poetry, 1952)
*Autobiographical Manuscripts (c. 1951-1953)
*"Americans Want to Be Loved" (Unpublished Poem, c. 1953)
"The Rosenberg Cantata" (Poetry, 1954)
*"The Troubled Land" (Personal Essay, 1954)
*"A Reply to William Faulkner's 'Thinking with the Blood' " (Journalism, 1956)
*"A Word to 'Tired Radicals' " (Journalism, 1957)
*"A Long Day in a Short Life" (Journalism, 1957)
*"A One-Man United Front: Du Bois for President" (Journalism, 1958)

Part Six
*"Message of New Epoch: 'Freedom Is Indivisible' " (Journalism, 1963)
*"What Tereshkova Accomplished Here" (Journalism, 1963)
*"The Birmingham Bomb Was Warning to America" (Journalism, 1963)
*"A Vivid Recollection of Elizabeth Flynn" (Journalism, 1964)
*"Paean to Pete Seeger and American Music" (Journalism, 1958)
*"The Songs of Hope, and Their Singers" (Journalism, 1964)
*"Bob Dylan-Voice of America's Youth" (Journalism, 1965)
*"We're a Long Way from Lincoln's Dream" (Journalism, 1965)
*"About Broad Humor and Intense Tragedy" (Journalism, 1965)
*"No Songs and Flowers for the Vietnam Slaughter" (Journalism, 1966)
*Autobiographical Notes (Memoir, 1965-1966)
*"Change the World! A Warm Farewell" (Journalism, 1966)

Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

*These works have not appeared in previous collections of Gold's writings.