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Author: Gregory D. Sumner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780801430206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sumner finds the clearest expression of Macdonald's creative power and of the political thinking that would eventually bridge the "Old Left" and the "New".
Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781578065332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A representative selection of interviews with one of the most acute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the twentieth century
Author: Dwight Macdonald
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Wreszin
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Published: 1994-05-03
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the quintessential story of an American awakening. It is the tale of an upper-middle-class white male, schooled in the elite institutions of the WASP establishment, who managed to jettison all of the prejudices and provincialism of his class and through the force of his inquiring mind, to become one of the most penetrating critics of mid-century American civilization.
Author: Clive Bush
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9781906165253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Century's Midnight is an exploration of the literary and political relationships between a number of ideologically sophisticated American and European writers during a mid-twentieth century dominated by the Second World War. Clive Bush offers an account of an intelligent and diverse community of people of good will, transcending national, ideological and cultural barriers. Although structured around five central figures - the novelist Victor Serge, the editors Dwight Macdonald and Dorothy Norman, the cultural critic Lewis Mumford and the poet Muriel Rukeyser - the book examines a wealth of European and American writers including Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Walter Benjamin, John Dos Passos, André Gide, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, George Orwell, Boris Pilniak, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ignacio Silone and Richard Wright. The book's central theme relates politics and literature to time and narrative. The author argues that knowledge of the writers of this period is of inestimable value in attempting to understand our contemporary world.
Author: J. Newsinger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1999-01-17
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0333983602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Orwell's Politics is a study of the development of George Orwell's political ideas and beliefs from his time as a policeman in Burma through to the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four . It places Orwell's thinking in historical context, examining his response to mass unemployment in 1930s Britain, to revolution in Spain, to the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath. Orwell remained both an anti-Stalinist and a socialist up until his death.
Author: Hugh Wilford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-23
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1135294704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shortly after it was founded in 1947, the CIA launched a secret effort to win the Cold War allegiance of the British left. Hugh Wilford traces the story of this campaign from its origins in Washington DC to its impact on Labour Party politicians, trade unionists, and Bloomsbury intellectuals
Author: Ian Williams
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-30
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1349952540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyzes George Orwell’s politics and their reception across both sides of the Atlantic. It considers Orwell’s place in the politics of his native Britain and his reception in the USA, where he has had some of his most fervent emulators, exegetists, and detractors. Written by an ex “teenage Maoist” from Liverpool, UK, who now lives and writes in New York, the book points out how often the different strands of opinion derive from “ancestral” ideological struggles within the Communist/Trotskyist movement in the 30’s, and how these often overlook or indeed consciously ignore the indigenous British politics and sociology that did so much to influence Orwell’s political and literary development. It examines in the modern era what Orwell did in his–the seductions of simplistic and absolutist ideologies for some intellectuals, especially in their reactions to Orwell himself.
Author: Douglas Charles Rossinow
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780812240498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rossinow revisits the period between the 1880s and the 1940s, when reformers and radicals worked together along a middle path between the revolutionary left and establishment liberalism. He takes the story up to the present, showing how the progressive connection was lost and explaining the consequences that followed.
Author: John Rodden
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017-01-18
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 0252098900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red. John Rodden cuts this tall tale down to its authentic pint size, refusing to indulge the public relations myth promoted by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. In Of G-Men and Eggheads, Rodden portrays federal agents’ hilarious obsession with monitoring that ever-present threat to national security, the American literary intellectual. Drawing on government dossiers and archives, Rodden focuses on the onetime members of a radical political sect of ex-Trotskyists (barely numbering a thousand at its height), the so-called New York intellectuals. He describes the nonsensical decades-long pursuit of this group of intellectuals, especially Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, and Irving Howe. The Keystone Cops style of numerous FBI agents is documented carefully in Rodden's meticulous case studies of how Hoover's men recruited informants to snoop on the "Commies," opened their personal mail, tracked their movements, and reported on their wives and friends.
