In the lost generation part a.
Members of this particular generation were sometimes so disillusioned with the United States that they lent their support to violent and ideologically reprehensible regimes.
Many of the artists and creative geniuses who turned against their home country later abandoned radical ideals in favor of supporting the United States.

PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answers to Part A?

A

"It proved nothing beyond the human capacity for committing a boundless blunder, but it deeply affected a group of American writers" ( Paragraph 2)

B

"It was in this, the turbulent political arena of post-WWI Europe, where several paragons of the 'Lost Generation' were truly without a compass." ( Paragraph 8)

C

"Not as lucky as Stein, who escaped all retribution, Pound was arrested by the U. S. Army in 1945, charged with treason" ( Paragraph 12)

D

"Steinbeck secretly offered his services to the CIA; its director, Walter Bedell Smith, was eager to take him up on the offer" ( Paragraph 21)

E

"But as an author, he was a ruthless iconoclast, an intellectual rebel in an all-out war on societal restraints and traditional values." ( Paragraph 22)

F

"the same way some of his fellow expatriates shed their revolutionary politics: by embracing the values of their home in America." ( Paragraph 26)