In the early 1930’s in a small alcove at City College in New York a group of young, passionate, and politically radical students argued for hours about the fi
In the early 1930’s in a small alcove at City College in New York a group of young, passionate, and politically radical students argued for hours about the fi
Reconstructs the history of a group of thinkers and activists including Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, and Lionel Trilling--collectively known as
The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the rep
From Lionel Trilling to Irving Kristol, from Philip Rahv to Norman Podhoretz, this book offers a comprehensive look at New York intellectual life over the past