Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right - Hardcover

Balint, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586487493 ISBN 13: 9781586487492

Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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 intellectuals—Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick and many others—shared 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 began—inexplicably to some—to veer right, becoming the voice of neoconservativism and defender of the powerful.

This lively history, based on unprecedented access to the magazine's 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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Benjamin Balint has written for the Wall Street Journal, the American Scholar, the Weekly Standard, Policy Review, Haaretz, the Forward, the Claremont Review of Books, and Commentary, where he served as an editor from 2001 to 2004. Originally from Seattle, he earned a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Washington. Balint is currently a fellow at the Hudson Institute.

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• Verlag: PublicAffairs
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1586487493
• ISBN 13: 9781586487492
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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