The New York intellectuals : the rise and decline of the anti-Stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s

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The New York intellectuals : the rise and decline of the anti-Stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s

by Alan M. Wald

University of North Carolina Press, 1987

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780807817162

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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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: pbk ISBN 9780807841693

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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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