The NewYork Intellectuals
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THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE ANTI-STALINIST LEFT
FROM THE 19305 TO THE 19805
ALAN M.WALD
':Alan Wald's book is the best in–
formed and most hard-hitting ac–
count of a group-the 'New
York intellectuals'-central to
twentieth-century intellectual life
and politics in America. Without
sharing Wald's fervent politics, I
am full of admiration for his
knowledge-this took a lot of
detective work!-and for the in–
cisiveness of his mind."
-Alfred Kazin
':An impressive piece of investigative reporting, full of facts about ne–
glected and forgotten figures-not to mention some more familiar
ones. It outdistances the current spate of books and articles on that
imperfectly defined subject and sets a high standard for scholarship
in its wake."-Daniel Aaron, Harvard University
The New York Intellectuals
is an absorbing account of an often misun–
derstood chapter in the history of literary radicalism and the Marxist
intellectual tradition in the United States. Combining the methods
of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history, and political theo–
ry, this study is based on the most extensive empirical research ever
undertaken on the famous group known as the "New York intellec–
tuals."
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440 pp., $32.50 cloth, $12.95 paper
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