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

Book information

Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
1987
ISBN
0807841692, 9780807841693
LCC
HX92.N5 W35 1987
Open Library ID
OL2730847M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2046265 bytes)
Edition
Copyright 1987
Pages
348\348
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In contrast to other scholars who emphasize the affinity of the "New York Intellectuals" for literary modernism and its largely Jewish composition as its defining characteristics, Wald finds these traits to be secondary to the group's agonizing efforts in the 1930s and after to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement. Wald presents an absorbing account of this misunderstood chapter in the history of literary radicalism and the Marxist intellectual tradition in the United States.

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