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Book SynopsisAlfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it a history of contemporary American letters.
Trade ReviewRich in sketches of many cultural figures-Edmund Wilson, Trilling, Tate, Matthiessen, Pound, Eliot, Brooks, Frost, Lowell, Hofstadter, Bellow, Arendt, Jarrell, Goodman-and brilliant in its assessment of the magazines he worked for . . . the women he loved. . . . Haunted by the Holocaust, he will not let the reader escape historical memory. His is the voice of a radical conscience, honest, compassionate, and deeply moving.
New York Jew is filled with illuminating anecdotes about the great and the near-great, scrabbling over one another in these turbulent pages, clamoring for attention, each one shouting at me, me, me!
