THE UNITED STATES 33 Edgar Lee Masters: Expansion and Conflict 34 Albion Tourgeé: Slavery and Emancipation 34 John W. De Forest: Post-War Corruption 35 Hamlin Garland: Enter the Farmer 36 Winston Churchill and David Phillips: Bosses and Lobbies 36 Jack London: Marxism v. Fascism, Early Phase 37 James L. Ford, Samuel H. Adams, and Upton Sinclair: Oil Men and Anarchists 38 John Dos Passos and James T. Farrell: Communist Infiltration 39 Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos: Global War and Politics 40 Post-War Directions 40 THE CONTINENT AND ELSEWHERE 42 Joseph Conrad: Colonial Politics and Revolution 42 The Soviet State: Its Roots and Growth 43 Marie-Henri Beyle [Stendhal]: Napoleonic Panorama 44 André Malraux: Comintern v. Kuomintang 44 Jean-Paul Sartre: The Shadow of Munich 45 Fascism through Italian Eyes 45 Alan Paton: The Trek of the Boers 46 Richard Kaufmann: The Third Reich 47 Chapter Four. THE NOVEL AS MIRROR OF NATIONAL CHARACTER 48 GREAT BRITAIN: A SELF-PORTRAIT 48 Peaceful Change in the Political Realm 48 The Fruits of Imperialism 50 THE UNITED STATES: A SELF-PORTRAIT 51 Forces of Corruption 52 The American Idealist 53 Responsibility at Home and Abroad 53 ITALY: A SELF-PORTRAIT 55 SPAIN: AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT 57 GREECE: AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT 58 FRANCE: A COMPOSITE PORTRAIT 58 RUSSIA: A COMPOSITE PORTRAIT 59 UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA: A SELF-PORTRAIT 61 GERMANY: A SELF-PORTRAIT 61 Chapter Five. THE NOVELIST AS ANALYST OF GROUP POLITICAL BEHAVIOR 63