An Intelligent Radical’s Guide to the 1930s

An Intelligent Radical’s Guide to the 1930s

In six short chapters, covering 1934 to 1940, the fifty-year-old Alfred Kazin self-assuredly serves as Virgil guiding readers, along with his younger self, through the mythic “Red Decade” in a style that delivers straight-up lectures intercalated with show-and-tell. What did Kazin do and how did he...

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Veröffentlicht in:Society (New Brunswick) 2018-12, Vol.55 (6), p.497-502
1. Verfasser: Wald, Alan
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Biographies
Communism
Criticism and interpretation
Hofstadter, Richard
Hook, Sidney (1902-1989)
Intelligence
Kazin, Alfred
Lectures
Literary critics
Memoirs
Political Science
Radicalism
Social Sciences
Sociology
Symposium: Alfred Kazin’s Legacy
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Zusammenfassung:In six short chapters, covering 1934 to 1940, the fifty-year-old Alfred Kazin self-assuredly serves as Virgil guiding readers, along with his younger self, through the mythic “Red Decade” in a style that delivers straight-up lectures intercalated with show-and-tell. What did Kazin do and how did he do it?
ISSN:0147-2011
1936-4725
DOI:10.1007/s12115-018-0299-x