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The Social and the Real: Politicul An of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere. Edited by Alejandro Anrcus, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 362. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $50.00 paper.
The premise of this anthology is an important one in the confluence of time, geography, and topic. The 1930s, like "the '60s," is shorthand for a significant period in history that does not truly fit neatly into an even-numbered decade. What is meant by "the 1930s" covers the late 1920s right up to the U.S. involvement in the second World War, a very radicalized period struggling with the Great Depression, capitalist recovery, and communist responses. This book also inclusively embraces the whole Hemisphere, packing into one volume a range of essays on artists and movements in Argentina, Canada, Cuba, and Mexico as well as the United States. The book's title reflects its goal of dissecting interpretations...