----: _The Grand Design_ (1949). Panoramic novel of New Deal and wartime Washington. Conflicts of personalities, ideals, and politics--national and international. ELLISON, RALPH: _The Invisible Man_ (1953). A young Negro’s crack-up under prejudice in North and South and disillusionment after whole-souled Communist Work. FARRELL, JAMES T.: _Yet Other Waters_ (1952). Novelist Bernard Carr learns that the Communists dictate to artists too, then leaves despite twinges and “the treatment.” FORD, JAMES L.: _Hot Corn Ike_ (1923). Local politics with national implications in two areas of late nineteenth-century New York. FORD, PAUL LEICESTER: _The Honorable Peter Stirling_ (1894). Poor Man’s Friend to Governor of New York despite vicissitudes as love and virtue triumph. GALLICO, PAUL: _Trial by Terror_ (1952). Blackmail frees an American conditioned into a robot for a Hungarian spy trial while American diplomats send notes of protest. GARLAND, HAMLIN: _A Spoil of Office_ (1897). Iowans Bradley Talcott and Ida Wilbur fight for the farmers in and out of Congress in the seventies. GLASGOW, ELLEN: _The Voice of the People_ (1900). Lincolnesque Governor Nick Burr fights a corrupt organization and meets his death in post-Reconstruction Virginia. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST: _For Whom the Bell Tolls_ (1943). Conflict of ideologies in Spain as anti-Fascist, non-Communist Robert Jordan dies fighting for what he believes in. JAMES, HENRY: _The Princess Casamassima_ (1886). Suicide frees displaced Hyacinth Robinson from serving London revolutionaries whose cause he no longer supports. LANCLEY, ADRIA LOCKE: _A Lion Is in the Streets_ (1945). Another Huey Long novel. LEWIS, SINCLAIR: _It Can’t Happen Here_ (1936). The horrors of a Fascist America. LONDON, JACK: _The Iron Heel_ (1908). America under the Fascist Oligarchy seen in retrospect from the 26th century when near-Utopia is well-established. MCCARTHY, MARY: _The Oasis_ (1949). The founding of a seemingly successful utopian colony which begins to wither from lack of feeling of relevance and conviction. MAILER, NORMAN: _Barbary Shore_ (1951). A special revolutionary socialism to be saved for “the day” is passed from one to another of a group of weird characters. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE: _Children of the Market Place_ (1922). Spirited biography and defense of Stephen A. Douglas set against a growing America by a shadowy narrator. MANCHESTER, WILLIAM: _City of Anger_ (1953). A series of tragedies growing out of the “numbers racket” and corruption in a city that looks and sounds like Baltimore. PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM: _The Plum Tree_ (1905). Harvey Sayler gains control of a huge lobby and becomes a President-maker before disillusionment sets in.