Radical Responses to the The Great Depression

Old Hell.
Emmett Gowen.
New York: Modern Age Books, 1937.

A humorous treatment of a Tennessee mountain white, compared to Caldwell's God's Little Acre. The author taught at Commonwealth College, closed in 1941 as subversive by the Arkansas attorney general. "Gowen is a backwoods Thurber."--Stanley Young, N.Y. Times.

	RADICAL RESPONSES TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION Radical Novels
		Old Hell. Emmett Gowen. New York: Modern Age Books, 1937. A humorous treatment of a Tennessee mountain white, compared to Caldwell's God's Little Acre. The author taught at Commonwealth College, closed in 1941 as subversive by the Arkansas attorney general. "Gowen is a backwoods Thurber."--Stanley Young, N.Y. Times.