Willa Cather and the Politics of CriticismBy: Joan Acocella In this brilliant, impassioned and controversial book, New Yorker critic Joan Acocella argues that twentieth century literary critics from the Left and Right have misused Willa Cather and her works for their own political ends, and, in doing so, have either ignored or obscured her true literary achievement. In an acute and often very funny critique of the critics, Acocella untangles Cather's reputation from decades of politically