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Cantwell was with us during the last 22 years of his life, in which he wrote dozens of memorable articles, among them a portrayal of Cecil Smith, the Texas cowboy who became perhaps the greatest polo player the world has ever seen. When Cantwell wrote of Banjo Paterson, the virtually unknown
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Cantwell dismissed his radical affiliations of youth obliquely in later life, saying "I had no interest in politics" and no (public) political aspirations. Nevertheless, his circle in the 1930s was a strong
Leftist one that included Schapiro (Marxist), Cowley (Communist Party fellow traveller),
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populist-progressive-anarchist political culture, something quite different from New York City
European-oriented doctrinaire Marxism—the Grange, the Progressive Party, the Wobblies, rather than the regimen of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist party discipline. The Centralia strikers were Wobblies.
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concluded, "That
Cantwell did not use correct Marxist terminology would seem to indicate that he was no CP member, that however to the left he was and in sympathy with the Party's aims, he was an independent person doing his own thinking." This reflected his background in West Coast
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Cantwell's mental breakdown in 1941 plus
Chambers' use of his surname in the 1930s may well have led the Hiss defense team to conflate the two Cantwells and thus question Chambers' own sanity. ("Is he a man of sanity?" Hiss publicly questioned as early as August 25, 1948.)
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Holmlund and Calvin Fixx (Communist Party members), and Chambers (Soviet spy). Further, his correspondence shows a strong interest, for example, in the
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Cantwell married Mary Elizabeth Chambers, known as Betsy, a teacher, on February 2, 1931: she (no relation to Whittaker Chambers) was a cousin of
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Robert Emmet Cantwell was born on January 31, 1908, in Little Falls (now
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During the Hiss Case, the FBI often lurked around Cantwell's home in
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2349:. US Government Printing Office (GPO). 22 October 1948. p. 1167
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Other members of his family are of note: his great-grandfather was
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Robert Cantwell: An American 1930s Radical Writer and His Apostasy
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anthology edited and introduced by Robert Cantwell (1951)
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Cantwell, Robert. "The Hills around Centralia." In
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195:(1931) is an early example, twenty years before
1898:"Guide to the Robert Cantwell Papers 1926−1978"
1358:"Outlook's Book Choice of the Month" (Review),
1852:. Oslo: Novus Press. pp. 12 (Centralia).
1662:"War on the West Coast" (with Evelyn Seeley),
1519:"Outlook Book Choices of the Month" (Review),
2226:Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters, 1917−1961
2000:"Literary Editor And Writer at 2 Magazines".
1896:Agapito, Aggie; Kihunrwa, Aika-Maria (2004).
1676:"Outlook Book Choice of the Month" (Review),
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1414:"Outlook Book Choice of the Month" (Review),
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1393:"Outlook Book Choice of the Month" (Review),
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1641:"Books in Review: The Little Magazines,"
1533:"Can You Hear Their Voices?" (3 Reviews),
1484:"The Rover Boys in Wall Street" (Review),
1449:"Seventy-five Short Stories" (3 Reviews),
1421:"Four Novelists of Tomorrow" (4 Reviews),
1302:"The Importance of Henry James" (Review),
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2086:Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936–1938
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2203:Sutton, Kelso F. (18 December 1978).
1211:"Conflict Between Sisters" (Review),
660:Cantwell's correspondence includes:
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2207:. Sports Illustrated. Archived from
1274:"Class-Conscious Fiction" (Review),
583:Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
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1786:Cantwell wrote articles mostly for
1683:"Outlook Book Choice" (8 Reviews),
1505:"Love Among the Maggots" (Review),
1260:"Polishing Our Bicycles" (Review),
1239:"Second Person Singular" (Review),
1018:Real McCoy: The Life and Times of
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1732:"The Mystery of Popular Reading,"
1526:"The Search for a Hero" (Review),
1407:"Some Recent Novels" (4 Reviews),
1281:"This Side of Paradise" (Review),
1190:"Sympathetic to Revolt" (Review),
1176:"Lawrence's Last Novel" (Review),
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2439:Cantwell, Robert (17 July 1935).
1725:"Outstanding Books of the Year,"
1704:"Books and Reviews" (2 Reviews),
1613:"Books and Reviews" (4 Reviews),
1589:"Books and Reviews" (4 Reviews),
1547:"Outstanding Books of the Year,"
1491:"Books and Reviews" (5 Reviews),
1337:"Effective Propaganda" (Review),
1316:"Distinguished Tedium" (Review),
1253:"The End of Tradition" (Review),
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2022:. 10 December 1976. p. B12.
2004:. 10 December 1978. p. B12.
1760:"What the Working Class Reads,"
1711:"Outlook Book Choice" (Review),
1697:"Outlook Book Choice" (Review),
1669:"Books and Reviews (3 Reviews),
1627:"Outlook Book Choice" (Review),
1620:"Outlook Book Choice" (Review),
1596:"Outlook Book Choice" (Review),
1568:"Outlook Book Choice" (Review),
1477:"The Social Novelist" (Review),
1232:"The Wreck of the Gravy Train",
1225:"Portrait of America" (Review),
992:"The Hills around Centralia" in
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1753:"Both Monologues" (2 Reviews),
1746:"Better News from California,"
1634:Outlook Book Choice" (Review),
1246:"Order and Disorder" (Review),
1218:"The Week's Reading" (Review),
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2441:"What the Working Class Reads"
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1767:"The Communists and the CIO,"
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1718:"The Return of Henry James,"
1386:"Children's Books" (Review),
1351:"The Man of Order" (Review),
1344:"The Man of Order" (Review),
2467:"The Communists and the CIO"
2323:Chambers, Whittaker (1952).
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585:. While working together at
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2222:Baker, Carlos, ed. (1981).
2205:"Letter From The Publisher"
2131:. Samuel French. p. 72
1690:"Strikebreakers" (Review),
1295:"Men of the Sea" (Review),
1288:"American Exile" (Review),
1183:"Selma Lagerlof" (Review),
1128:, convicted labor dynamiter
1101:William Makepeace Thackeray
477:. In 1938, he returned to
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2533:. Boise State University.
2259:Vanderlan, Robert (2011).
1972:. Boise State University.
1739:"Bound Nowhere" (Review),
1648:"San Francisco: Act One,"
1083:Far from the Madding Crowd
973:"Hanging by My Thumbs" in
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498:Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
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2383:Cantwell, Robert (1948).
1372:"Big Novelist" (Review),
1365:"As I Like It" (Review),
1323:"As I Like It" (Review),
1267:"Bronx Cheers" (Review),
1073:Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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2150:Craig, R. Bruce (2001).
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975:The New American Caravan
709:Michael Troutman Simmons
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245:University of Washington
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2574:Seyersted, Per (2004).
2525:Lewis, Merrill (1985).
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1964:Lewis, Merrill (1985).
1846:Seyersted, Per (2004).
1197:"California" (Review),
555:Personal life and death
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2293:Dee, Jonathan (1986).
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549:The Hidden Northwest
505:: The American Years
2414:"A Real Man's Life"
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1692:The Saturday Review
1603:"Books in Review,"
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1582:"Books in Review,"
1575:"Books in Review,"
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1561:"Books in Review,"
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1248:The Saturday Review
1229:(December 19, 1931)
1227:The Saturday Review
1222:(November 25, 1931)
1213:The Saturday Review
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1180:(December 24, 1930)
1091:Agnes Miller Parker
941:John Loomis Sherman
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909:Nathaniel Hawthorne
878:John Loomis Sherman
815:, Robert Cantwell,
761:F. Scott Fitzgerald
503:Nathaniel Hawthorne
489:in Saroyan's play,
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294:Farrar and Rinehart
249:Hoquiam, Washington
219:Crowd gathering at
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2080:Elizabeth Hardwick
1930:Reed, T.V (2014).
1788:Sports Illustrated
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1341:(October 19, 1932)
1334:(October 12, 1932)
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1137:Four Novelists on
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893:Whittaker Chambers
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813:Whittaker Chambers
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521:Sports Illustrated
413:Whittaker Chambers
334:Whittaker Chambers
306:The Land of Plenty
298:Laugh and Lie Down
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152:Sports Illustrated
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1126:James B. McNamara
1124:Autobiography of
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690:Clare Boothe Luce
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744:Joris Ivens
572:Allison Joy
425:New Outlook
286:Calvin Fixx
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2599:Categories
2398:8 December
2186:2014-09-30
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