the Wilsonian moral crusade to "make the world safe for democracy," sought new domestic campaigns. Led philosopher John Dewey, New Republic editor Herbert Croly, and The Nation's Os-wald Garrison Villard, these thinkers each began what Dewey called a "search for the Great Community." If America could unite in war, they argued, why could it not become a national community in an era of peace? The efforts of 1920s intellectuals and novelists dovetailed. While intel-
lectuals invoked...