Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America

by Neil Jumonville

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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 representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers who founded, edited, and wrote for some of the most influential magazines in the country, including Partisan Review, Politics, Commentary, and

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974.7History & geographyHistory of North AmericaNortheastern United States (New England and Middle Atlantic states)New York
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F128.52 .J86Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaUnited States local historyNew York
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