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...Crucifixion, pass a long life in retirement) or with Sholem Asch's best-seller of 1939, The Nazarene (which among other things presented a supposed "gospel" written by Judas). But Behold the Man is vivid, emotional, at times almost cinematic in its blood-&-thunders. Like the works of Upton Sinclair, it may find a wide, unsophisticated readership in other tongues as well as English...
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Between Two Worlds is a continuation of World's End (TIME, June 24), Upton Sinclair's attempt at a fictional history of the 20th Century. That assignment would be tough enough to paralyze the soul of the greatest artist, the profoundest analyst, whom the 20th Century could produce. To Upton Sinclair, who is neither, it is so much duck soup. There are and will be far more important treatments of the theme; but it is unlikely that any will be more easily written-or read...
Dreiser's tract is largely an attack on this felonious isle, this seat of tyrants, this England. He is also so fearfully wrought up over the present state of the U. S. that America is Worth Saving reads like the definitive burlesque of Upton Sinclair. Like Trumbo, Dreiser is just a good guy trying to revive the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Last fall, during the Presidential campaign, he announced his support of Earl Browder and the Communist Party platform...