The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition : The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to The 1980s.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text and the Illustrations -- Introduction. Political Amnesia -- Part I. ORIGINS OF THE ANTI-STALINIST LEFT -- Chapter 1. Jewish Internationalists -- The Non-Jewish Jews -- Portrait: Elliot Cohen -- Portrait: Lionel Trilling -- Portrait: Herbert Solow -- From Cultural Pluralism to Revolutionary Internationalism -- Chapter 2. Dissident Communists -- The Menorah Group Moves Left -- New Allies: Sidney Hook, James Rorty, Charles Rumford Walker -- The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (NCDPP) and the League of Professionals -- The Intellectual Disease -- Chapter 3. Radical Modernists -- In Defense of Literature -- Other Dissident Writers and Critics on the Left: James T. Farrell, F. W. Dupee, Edmund Wilson -- The Appeal of Trotskyism -- Part II. REVOLUTIONARY INTELLECTUALS -- Chapter 4. Philosophers and Revolutionists -- The Non-Partisan Labor Defense Committee (NPLD) and the American Workers Party -- Party Factionalism and the "French Turn" -- The Eastman Heresies -- Marxism and Pragmatism -- Chapter 5. The Moscow Trials -- The American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky -- The Hearings in Mexico -- Marxist Cultural Renaissance -- The Ambiguities of Anti- Stalinism -- Twilight of the Thirties -- Chapter 6. Cannonites and Shachtmanites -- Party Leaders and Party Politics -- Portrait: James P. Cannon -- Portrait: Max Shachtman -- James Burnham: From Neo-Thomism to Trotskyism -- Schism -- Chapter 7. The Second Imperialist War -- The Enigma of World War II -- Dwight Macdonald: From Trotskyism to Anarcho-Pacifism -- Meyer Schapiro: Socialist Internationalist -- The Politics of Literary Criticism -- Chapter 8. The New York Intellectuals in Fiction -- Literature and Ideology.

From Acquiescence to Antiradicalism -- Politics and the Novel -- A Revolutionary Novelist in Crisis -- Part III.THE GREAT RETREAT -- Chapter 9. Apostates and True Believers -- "Red Fascism" -- The Psychology of Apostasy -- The Iron Cage of Orthodoxy -- Chapter 10. The Cul-de-Sac of Social Democracy -- Portrait: Irving Howe -- The "Socialist Wing of the West" -- Portrait: Harvey Swados -- The Ambiguous Legacy -- Chapter 11. The Bitter Fruits of Anticommunism -- Cold War II -- Portrait: Irving Kristol -- Portraits: Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter -- The Ideologists of Antiradicalism -- Epilogue. Marxism and Intellectuals in the United States -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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