Arguing the World: the New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
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Few groups of friends have argued ideas so passionately and publicly as the New York Intellectuals. A brilliantly contentious circle of writers, they wielded enormous influence in the second half of the twentieth century through their championing of cultural modernism and their critique of Soviet totalitarianism. At the group's forefront were political essayist Irving Kristol, literary critic Irving Howe, and sociologists Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer: four great thinkers who are brought into sharp focus in this absorbing history of one of the century's great intellectual communities.
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Arguing the World documents the life-long political arguments of these men, from their working class beginnings to their rise to prominence in post-war America. From the advent of the Cold War and McCarthyism, to the rise of the New Left on college campuses, to the emergence of neoconservatism, the group's disagreements grew more heated and at times more personal. Weaving personal reminiscences from these towering figures with those of their friends and foes, Arguing the World opens a new window on the social and intellectual history of twentieth century America.
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