English, 02.03.2021 03:20, Wolfman2004

By the midpoint of the twentieth century, America was a country that had been involved in two world wars, a country into which immigrants had streamed from many other nations seeking the American dream, a country that had struggled with a devastating economic crisis. How might these facts have driven the broadening and diversifying of American literature?

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