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Among the influential New York Jewish intellectuals discussed are: Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Daniel Bell, Harold Rosenberg, Saul Bellow, Irving Kristol, and Norman Podhoretz.

Title Prodigal sons : the New York intellectuals & their world / Alexander Bloom.
Publisher New York, New York
Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 1986
Notes Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Introduction: ""The Herd of Independent Minds,""
I. PATHS TO PARTISAN
1 Young Men from the Provinces
2 A New York Education
3 The Radical Vanguard
II. THE PARTISAN MIND
4 The Partisan Family
5 The Partisan Mind: Cultural Turns
6 The Partisan Mind: Political Turns
III. PRODIGAL SONS
7 Partisan Warfare
8 Heart In-Head Out
9 Into the Promised Land
IV. MAKING IT
10 The Postwar Mentality: Imagination & Affirmation
11 Liberal Anticommunism
12 Sensations of Wisdom, Stamina, and Poise
13 Things Fall Apart: Dispersions
14 What We Are Today
Notes
Index
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Extent 1 online resource (474 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©1986
National Library system number 997010700130505171
MARC RECORDS
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