The Rise ofthe
New
York
Intellectuals
PAR TISAN REVIEW
AND ITS CIRCLE
Terry A. Cooney
From the late 1930s well into the postwar era,
the writers, editors, and critics who gathered
around the
Partisan Review
played a leading role
in shaping the public discourse of American
intellectual life. In this book, Terry Cooney traces
the evolution of the
Partisan Review
during its
formative years, giving us a lucid and dispassionate
view of the magazine and its luminaries- Lionel
Trilling, Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Dwight
Macdonald, FW Dupee, Mary McCarthy, Sidney
Hook, Harold Rosenberg, Delmore Schwartz, and
others. Central to Cooney's study is the search
of the New York intellectuals for a rich and
inclusive American culture-and especially an
American literature-that could measure up to the
traditions of Europe.
Tracing the magazine's story with sensitivity
and great originality, Cooney makes a solid
contribution to American intellectual history,
one that will be of great interest also to students
and scholars of political science, American
literature, sociology, as well as to the general reader
seeking clues to the American character.
The History of American Thought and Culture
Series _ Paul S. Boyer, General Editor
1986. Cloth $25.00
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