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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10019503662X
ISBN-139780195036626
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Book TitleProdigal Sons : the New York Intellectuals and Their World
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Literary, Jewish, Jewish Studies
Publication Year1986
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorAlexander Bloom
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight29.9 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6.7 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN85-005128
Reviews"This is sociology with a human face."--James Atlas, Vanity Fair"An exceedinly thorough-going study."--Los Angeles Times"Meticulously documented....The most important and comprehensive study of this group to date."--Library Journal"For those interested in American cultural life of the period since 1935, Prodigal Sons is essential reading."--Publishers Weekly"Impressively researched...Bloom has made a useful contribution to the history of ideas in 20th-century America."--Newsday"A concise and highly readable guidebook to what was obviously very exotic and frequently very perilous territory to traverse."--Kirkus Reviews, "This is sociology with a human face."--James Atlas,Vanity Fair. "An exceedinly thorough-going study."--Los Angeles Times. "Meticulously documented.... The most important and comprehensive study of this group to date."--Library Journal. "For those interested in American cultural life of the period since 1935,Prodigal Sonsis essential reading."--Publishers Weekly. "Impressively researched...Bloom has made a useful contribution to the history of ideas in 20th-century America."--Newsday. "A concise and highly readable guidebook to what was obviously very exotic and frequently very perilous territory to traverse."--Kirkus Reviews, "This is sociology with a human face."--James Atlas, Vanity Fair. "An exceedinly thorough-going study."--Los Angeles Times. "Meticulously documented.... The most important and comprehensive study of this group to date."--Library Journal. "For those interested in American cultural life of the period since 1935, Prodigal Sons is essential reading."--Publishers Weekly. "Impressively researched...Bloom has made a useful contribution to the history of ideas in 20th-century America."--Newsday. "A concise and highly readable guidebook to what was obviously very exotic and frequently very perilous territory to traverse."--Kirkus Reviews, "This is sociology with a human face."--James Atlas, Vanity Fair . "An exceedinly thorough-going study."-- Los Angeles Times . "Meticulously documented.... The most important and comprehensive study of this group to date."-- Library Journal . "For those interested in American cultural life of the period since 1935, Prodigal Sons is essential reading."-- Publishers Weekly . "Impressively researched...Bloom has made a useful contribution to the history of ideas in 20th-century America."-- Newsday . "A concise and highly readable guidebook to what was obviously very exotic and frequently very perilous territory to traverse."-- Kirkus Reviews, "This is sociology with a human face."--James Atlas, Vanity Fair "An exceedinly thorough-going study."--Los Angeles Times "Meticulously documented....The most important and comprehensive study of this group to date."--Library Journal "For those interested in American cultural life of the period since 1935, Prodigal Sons is essential reading."--Publishers Weekly "Impressively researched...Bloom has made a useful contribution to the history of ideas in 20th-century America."--Newsday "A concise and highly readable guidebook to what was obviously very exotic and frequently very perilous territory to traverse."--Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal974.7/1004924
Synopsis"A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Rahv, and William Phillips; social scientists like Nathan Glazer; art critics and historians Clement Greenberg, Harold Rrosenberg, and Meyer Schapiro; novelist Saul Bellow; and political journalists Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz. Their story winds through nearly all of the crucial intellectual and political events of the last decades, as well as through the major academic institutions of the nation and the editorial boards of such important journals as Partisan Review, Commentary, Dissent, The Public Interest, and The New York Review of Books. So deeply entrenched in our intellectual establishment are these people that it's easy to forget that most grew up onthe edge of American society--poor, Jewish, the children of immigrants. Prodigal Sons retraces their common past, from their New York City ghetto upbringing and education at Columbia and City College through their radicalization in the '30s to their preeminence in the postwar literary and academic world. The book examines their youthful efforts to ignore their Jewish heritage and their later rediscovery of this heritage in the wake of the Holocaust. It shows how they moved toward the liberal center during the Cold War and how the group fragmented in the 1960s, when some turned toward the right, becoming key figures in the Neo-Conservative movement of the 1970s and '80s. As Bloom points out, there is no single typical New York intellectual; nor did they share all their ideas. This book is concerned with how the community came to be formed, and what it thought important, how and why it moved and changed, and why it ultimately came undone. We learn some of the ways in which intellectuals function and justify their own places and a great deal about the political and cultural landscape over which New York intellectuals passed. A fascinating portrait of New York intellectual life over the past half-century -Based on interviews with many of the leading figures and 10 years of extensive research -Takes us behind the scenes at Commentary, Partisan Review, The Public Interest and other influential publications, "A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Rahv, and William Phillips; social scientists like Nathan Glazer; art critics and historians Clement Greenberg, Harold Rrosenberg, and Meyer Schapiro; novelist Saul Bellow; and political journalists IrvingKristol and Norman Podhoretz. Their story winds through nearly all of the crucial intellectual and political events of the last decades, as well as through the major academic institutions of the nation andthe editorial boards of such important journals as Partisan Review, Commentary, Dissent, The Public Interest, and The New York Review of Books. So deeply entrenched in our intellectual establishment are these people that it's easy to forget that most grew up onthe edge of American society--poor, Jewish, the children of immigrants. Prodigal Sons retraces their common past, from their New York City ghetto upbringing and education at Columbia and City College through theirradicalization in the '30s to their preeminence in the postwar literary and academic world. The book examines their youthful efforts to ignore their Jewish heritage and their later rediscovery of thisheritage in the wake of the Holocaust. It shows how they moved toward the liberal center during the Cold War and how the group fragmented in the 1960s, when some turned toward the right, becoming key figures in the Neo-Conservative movement of the 1970s and '80s. As Bloom points out, there is no single typical New York intellectual; nor did they share all their ideas. This book is concerned with how the community came to be formed, and what it thought important, how andwhy it moved and changed, and why it ultimately came undone. We learn some of the ways in which intellectuals function and justify their own places and a great deal about the political and culturallandscape over which New York intellectuals passed. A fascinating portrait of New York intellectual life over the past half-century BLBased on interviews with many of the leading figures and 10 years of extensive research BLTakes us behind the scenes at Commentary, Partisan Review, The Public Interest and other influential publications, From Lionel Trilling to Irving Kristol, from Philip Rahv to Norman Podhoretz, this book offers a comprehensive look at New York intellectual life over the past half-century. Bloom traces the rise of the New York intellectuals from their origins--poor, Jewish, the children of immigrants--to their coming to prominence in our intellectual estalishment. It takes us through nearly all the crucial intellectual and political events of the last decades and behind the scenes at such important journals as Partisan Review, Commentary, and The Public Interest., "A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Rahv, and William Phillips; social scientists like Nathan Glazer; art critics and historians Clement Greenberg, Harold Rrosenberg, and Meyer Schapiro; novelist Saul Bellow; and political journalists Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz. Their story winds through nearly all of the crucial intellectual and political events of the last decades, as well as through the major academic institutions of the nation and the editorial boards of such important journals as Partisan Review, Commentary, Dissent, The Public Interest, and The New York Review of Books. So deeply entrenched in our intellectual establishment are these people that it's easy to forget that most grew up onthe edge of American society--poor, Jewish, the children of immigrants. Prodigal Sons retraces their common past, from their New York City ghetto upbringing and education at Columbia and City College through their radicalization in the '30s to their preeminence in the postwar literary and academic world. The book examines their youthful efforts to ignore their Jewish heritage and their later rediscovery of this heritage in the wake of the Holocaust. It shows how they moved toward the liberal center during the Cold War and how the group fragmented in the 1960s, when some turned toward the right, becoming key figures in the Neo-Conservative movement of the 1970s and '80s. As Bloom points out, there is no single typical New York intellectual; nor did they share all their ideas. This book is concerned with how the community came to be formed, and what it thought important, how and why it moved and changed, and why it ultimately came undone. We learn some of the ways in which intellectuals function and justify their own places and a great deal about the political and cultural landscape over which New York intellectuals passed. A fascinating portrait of New York intellectual life over the past half-century BLBased on interviews with many of the leading figures and 10 years of extensive research BLTakes us behind the scenes at Commentary, Partisan Review, The Public Interest and other influential publications
LC Classification NumberF128.9.J5B55 1986
