The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s

Alan M. Wald

ISBN 10: 1469635941 / ISBN 13: 9781469635941

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2017

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2017. Thirtieth Anniversary. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1469635941
• ISBN 13: 9781469635941
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Alan M. Wald is Emeritus H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.