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The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition : The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s /

For a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. His passionate investigation of over half a century of dissident Marxist th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wald, Alan M., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Edición:Thirtieth anniversary edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:For a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. His passionate investigation of over half a century of dissident Marxist thought, Jewish internationalism, fervent political activism, and the complex art of the literary imagination is enriched by more than one hundred personal interviews, unparalleled primary research, and critical interpretations of novels and short stories depicting the inner lives of committed writers and thinkers. Wald's commanding biographical portraits of rebel outsiders who mostly became insiders retains its resonance today and includes commentary on Max Eastman, Elliot Cohen, Lionel Trilling, Sidney Hook, Tess Slesinger, Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Hannah Arendt, and more. With a new preface by the author that tracks the rebounding influence of these intellectuals in the era of Occupy and Bernie Sanders, this anniversary edition shows that the trajectory and ideological ordeals of the New York intellectual Left still matters today.
Notas:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (504 pages): illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469635965
Acceso:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.