Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's workforce and culture in the early decades of the 20th century, a diverse group of intellectuals settled in the vicinity of Cape Cod. Forming a bastion of Leftist thought and artistic experimentation, Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, and Edward Hopper founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools. A native with connections to some of the figures discussed here, John Taylor Williams offers a panoramic view of this unique time and place.