2000, ISBN: 9781566633116

Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000. Trade Paperback. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Richard Rossiter (Cover Design). 376 pp. Cl… Mehr…

Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000. Trade Paperback. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Richard Rossiter (Cover Design). 376 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: This seems to be a period of stocktaking by neoconservatives, for Kramer's collection of essays and reviews comes on the heels of Norman Podhoretz's E x-Friends. The two authors share many attitudes, having both evolved from r adical leftists in their early years to vociferous critics of what they see as today's totalitarian dominance of American political and cultural thoug ht by the left. But Podhoretz's book was freshly written and observed, whil e Kramer's is basically a collection of book reviews and essays, most of th em written during the past dozen years. While Podhoretz is essentially reti red, Kramer continues to enjoy a journalistic pulpit with his weekly pieces of art criticism in the New York Observer. He takes a lot of expected swip es here, usually employing as his base a biography of the subject under dis cussion: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Susan Sontag, Je an-Paul Sartre, Kenneth Tynan. He blames Saul Bellow for not being sufficie ntly vigorous in responding to the PC attacks leveled against him, and has interesting observations on the permutations through which journals like Pa rtisan Review and the New Republic have passed. There are thoughtful and re vealing essays on two major art critics, Kramer's mentor Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro, and on the mysterious Whittaker Chambers (whose now lar gely forgotten Witness Kramer describes as "one of the best books ever writ ten about the Communist experience in America"). Readers will find this to be a lively collection, whether or not they adhere to Kramer's stern view o f recent intellectual history., Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000, 5<

2000, ISBN: 1566633117

[EAN: 9781566633116], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Chicago, IL], CULTRAL STUDIES, POLITICAL AMERICAN HISTORY & US STUDIES, 376 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light sh… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781566633116], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Chicago, IL], CULTRAL STUDIES, POLITICAL AMERICAN HISTORY & US STUDIES, 376 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: This seems to be a period of stocktaking by neoconservatives, for Kramer's collection of essays and reviews comes on the heels of Norman Podhoretz's E x-Friends. The two authors share many attitudes, having both evolved from r adical leftists in their early years to vociferous critics of what they see as today's totalitarian dominance of American political and cultural thoug ht by the left. But Podhoretz's book was freshly written and observed, whil e Kramer's is basically a collection of book reviews and essays, most of th em written during the past dozen years. While Podhoretz is essentially reti red, Kramer continues to enjoy a journalistic pulpit with his weekly pieces of art criticism in the New York Observer. He takes a lot of expected swip es here, usually employing as his base a biography of the subject under dis cussion: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Susan Sontag, Je an-Paul Sartre, Kenneth Tynan. He blames Saul Bellow for not being sufficie ntly vigorous in responding to the PC attacks leveled against him, and has interesting observations on the permutations through which journals like Pa rtisan Review and the New Republic have passed. There are thoughtful and re vealing essays on two major art critics, Kramer's mentor Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro, and on the mysterious Whittaker Chambers (whose now lar gely forgotten Witness Kramer describes as "one of the best books ever writ ten about the Communist experience in America"). Readers will find this to be a lively collection, whether or not they adhere to Kramer's stern view o f recent intellectual history., Books<

2000, ISBN: 1566633117

[EAN: 9781566633116], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: Ivan R. Dee], 376 p. Lediglich die Broschur ist leicht bestoßen. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the broch… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781566633116], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: Ivan R. Dee], 376 p. Lediglich die Broschur ist leicht bestoßen. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the brochure is slightly bumped. Otherwise, howevver, a very good and clean copy. - CONTENT: On the Style and Politics of an Intellectual Class I IN THE SERVICE OF STALINISM Whittaker Chambers: Thinking About Witness Whittaker Chambers: The Judgment of History Who Was Josephine Herbst? The Life and Death of Lillian Heilman The Blacklist Revisited Nora Sayre's Sentimental "Journey" II THE TWILIGHT OF THE NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS The Edmund Wilson Centenary The Follies of Dwight Macdonald Mary McCarthy & Company The Role of Sidney Hook Irving Howe: "Socialism Is the Name of Our Desire" Diana Trilling and the Politics of Psychoanalysis Saul Bellow, Our Contemporary FROM MODERNISM TO THE "NEW SENSIBILITY" Clement Greenberg in the Forties Clement Greenberg and the Cold War Lincoln Kirstein and the "Aesthetic" Generation The "Apples" of Meyer Schapiro Susan Sontag: The Pasionaria of Style "CLOSING TIME IN THE GARDENS OF THE WEST" Cyril Connolly's Horizon i. An Orwell for the Nineties Bloomsbury Idols The Tynan Phenomenon The Flowers on Sartre's Grave THE STRANGE FATE OF LIBERAL ANTI-COMMUNISM What Was the Congress for Cultural Freedom? Life After Liberalism: The New Republic at Eighty Reflections on Partisan Review. ISBN 9781566633116 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 486, Books<

2000, ISBN: 1566633117

[EAN: 9781566633116], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Ivan R. Dee], 376 p. Lediglich die Broschur ist leicht bestoßen. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the brochure is slig… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781566633116], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Ivan R. Dee], 376 p. Lediglich die Broschur ist leicht bestoßen. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the brochure is slightly bumped. Otherwise, howevver, a very good and clean copy. - CONTENT: On the Style and Politics of an Intellectual Class I IN THE SERVICE OF STALINISM Whittaker Chambers: Thinking About Witness Whittaker Chambers: The Judgment of History Who Was Josephine Herbst? The Life and Death of Lillian Heilman The Blacklist Revisited Nora Sayre's Sentimental "Journey" II THE TWILIGHT OF THE NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS The Edmund Wilson Centenary The Follies of Dwight Macdonald Mary McCarthy & Company The Role of Sidney Hook Irving Howe: "Socialism Is the Name of Our Desire" Diana Trilling and the Politics of Psychoanalysis Saul Bellow, Our Contemporary FROM MODERNISM TO THE "NEW SENSIBILITY" Clement Greenberg in the Forties Clement Greenberg and the Cold War Lincoln Kirstein and the "Aesthetic" Generation The "Apples" of Meyer Schapiro Susan Sontag: The Pasionaria of Style "CLOSING TIME IN THE GARDENS OF THE WEST" Cyril Connolly's Horizon i. An Orwell for the Nineties Bloomsbury Idols The Tynan Phenomenon The Flowers on Sartre's Grave THE STRANGE FATE OF LIBERAL ANTI-COMMUNISM What Was the Congress for Cultural Freedom? Life After Liberalism: The New Republic at Eighty Reflections on Partisan Review. ISBN 9781566633116 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 486, Books<