In the American Jungle

About this eBook

Author

Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967

Title

In the American jungle [1925-1936]

Original Publication

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78957

Release Date

June 26, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.In the American Jungle [1925–1936]
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ONE: BOOM YEAR SKETCHES — 1. I DISCOVER THE NEW WORLD — a. — b. — c. — d. — e. — 2. A SAVAGE ISLE — a. — b. — c. — d. — 3. A MOB AND A MACHINE — 4. MURDER AS BAD ART — 5. THE BATTLE OF A CENTURY AND A HALF — 6. ENNOBLING OUR CRIMINALS — 7. READING THE SPORTS — 8. THE NEW CONQUISTADORES — 9. TWO FACES — 10. THE DRUG ON THE MARKET
5. 5.TWO: PORTRAITS — I. MEN — 1. RANDOLPH BOURNE — 2. CHARLES CHAPLIN — 3. D. H. LAWRENCE — 4. HERBERT CROLY — 5. SIGMUND FREUD — 6. SHERWOOD ANDERSON — 7. HART CRANE — II. AMERICAN TRAITS — 1. IN DEFENSE OF OUR VULGARITY — 2. THE MOVIES AND THE MASSES — 3. THE COMEDY OF COMMERCE — 4. JAZZ AND FOLK ART — 5. STRAIGHT STREETS — III. IDEAS — 1. SERIOUSNESS AND DADA — 2. MR. MENCKEN, KING OF THE PHILISTINES — 3. PSEUDO LITERATURE — 4. “UTILITARIAN ART” — 5. ART IN OUR JUNGLE — 6. THE ARTIST IN OUR JUNGLE — 7. THE MACHINE AND METAPHYSICS
6. 6.THREE: BOOKS — I. POE AT LAST — 2. FRANCE AND THOREAU — 3. FAIRY TALES FOR THE OLD — 4. DUSK AND DAWN — 5. ELEGY FOR ANARCHISM — a. — b. — 6. THE BOOK OF LEO STEIN — 7. REFLECTIONS ON SPENGLER — 8. THE MODERN DISTEMPER — a. — b. — c. — d. — 9. THE “UNIVERSE” OF T. S. ELIOT
7. 7.FOUR: SOME PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FOR THE SURVIVAL OF MAN — 1. SOLIDARITY IS NOT ENOUGH — a. — b. — c. — d. — e. — f. — 2. WITH MARX, SPINOZA.... — a. — b. — 3. FROM MANY MESSAGES TO MANY PEOPLE — i. War Is with Us Now To the First United States Congress Against War, Held in New York, 1933 — ii. To the Students of Cuba ( April, 1931 ) — iii. The Touchstone on the anniversary of the October Revolution, 1935 — iv. To Romain Rolland on His Seventieth Birthday — v. To the Premier of France — vi. Values of the Revolutionary Writer — vii. The Writer’s Part in Social Revolution — 4. TERRE HAUTE HOTEL
8. 8.INDEX

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