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The twilight of the intellectuals : culture and politics in the era of the Cold War

Author: Hilton Kramer
Publisher: Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In The Twilight of the Intellectuals, Mr. Kramer explores, in effect, the intellectual history of the cold war and its divisive impact on our politics and culture. His book is also necessarily about the consequences of the 1930s and the 1960s, two decades when the political left achieved its greatest influence. The Twilight of the Intellectuals is part memoir, part reflection, part critical analysis. It is filled  Read more...
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Genre/Form: History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Kramer, Hilton.
Twilight of the intellectuals.
Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1999
(OCoLC)607271449
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hilton Kramer
ISBN: 1566632226 9781566632225
OCLC Number: 39936751
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xx, 363 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: Whittaker Chambers: thinking about Witness --
Whittaker Chambers: the judgment of history --
Who was Josephine Herbst? --
The life and death of Lillian Hellman --
The blacklist revisited --
Nora Sayre's sentimental "journey" --
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 --
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 --
Cyril Connolly's Horizon --
An Orwell for the nineties --
Bloomsbury idols --
The Tynan phenomenon --
The flowers on Sartre's grave --
What was the congress for cultural freedom? --
Life after liberalism: The new republic at eighty --
Reflections on Partisan review.
Responsibility: Hilton Kramer.
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In this collection of essays and reviews, Hilton Kramer explores the intellectual history of the Cold War and its divisive impact on US politics and culture. The work encompasses the aftermath of the  Read more...

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