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Alfred 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.

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Rich 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!

New York Jew

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      Publisher Syracuse University Press
      Published 31 August 1996
      ISBN-13 9780815604136
      978-0815604136
      ISBN-10 0815604130

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Alfred 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 Review
      Rich 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!

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