In this compelling portrait of a unique family and a peculiarly American tragedy, Patricia Bosworth has brought to life an entire era: Roosevelt's New Deal, the triumphant Left, the victory of World War II, and then the fall of liberalism and the dawn of the Cold War.

Bosworth's Anything Your Little Heart Desires explores the political turmoil, which created an environment of anticommunist hysteria that ruined many lives full of promise.