Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis MumfordThe Young American critics Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village Little Renaissance of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to