In “Shades of Revolution,” T.H. Watkins describes a period of social, economic, and political turmoil that began with the stock market crash in October 1929 and abated somewhat in 1933 with the advent of Roosevelt’s New Deal.  Throughout the Depression, economic despair and loss of faith in American institutions prompted many people to join or sympathize with the Communist Party or other oppositional, working-class movements. How is the Communist Party’s influence evident in the poetry and reportage that you read for today’s class?