Running Commentary
The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right
Benjamin Balint(Author)
PublicAffairs,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 2010
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-58648-749-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the years of cultural and political ferment following World War II, a new generation of Jewish- American writers and thinkers arose to make an indelible mark on American culture. Commentary was their magazine; the place where they and other politically sympathetic intellectualsHannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick and many othersshared new work, explored ideas, and argued with each other. Founded by the offspring of immigrants, Commentary began life as a voice for the marginalized and a feisty advocate for civil rights and economic justice. But just as American culture moved in its direction, it beganinexplicably to someto veer right, becoming the voice of neoconservativism and defender of the powerful. This lively history, based on unprecedented access to the magazines archives and dozens of original interviews, provocatively explains that shift while recreating the atmosphere of some of the most exciting decades in American intellectual life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Cloth over boards
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TBD
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58648-749-2 (9781586487492)
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Benjamin Balint
Running Commentary
The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right
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