. . . "The workshop???s most famous director was its second one, Paul Engle ???a do-it-yourself Cold Warrior.??? The funding premise was that his program ???fortified democratic values at home and abroad; it fought communism.???And thus did America???s most influential writing program employ and teach such writers as John Cheever, Richard Yates, Raymond Carver and David Milch while the school tacitly pro" . . .