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The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War
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In these provocative and engaging writings, Mr. Kramer explores, in effect, the intellectual history of the cold war and its divisive impact on our politics and culture. Tracing the critical debate over communism and modernism, he surveys the writers who were in the forefront of that debate and the issues that animated their criticism and controversies. An honest, unsparin
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Hardcover, 384 pages
Published
February 9th 1999
by Ivan R. Dee Publisher
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Neoconservative art critic Hilton Kramer devotes 22 essays in five sections to some of the biggest names in art and literature in the U.S. and Britain from the 1930s to the 1960s - most of them Communists, some of them anti-Communists, all of them far to the left on the political spectrum (although some, like Whittaker Chambers and Saul Bellow, moved to the right in their later days). Kramer's point is that it was the anti-Communists, and not the Communist supporters, who suffered the most durin
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Seems curmudgeonly only 20 pages in...
A collection of Kramer's book reviews and criticism about the NY Intellectuals. The review of Lillian Hellman was hilarious; his piece on Mary McCarthy semi-accurate; his memoir about Josephine Herbst touching. A decent read, though I skimmed through reviews of people who I was not familiar with. My overall impression was that Kramer was never as famous as the people he was writing about, so his criticism is unnecessarily snarky and unforgiving at times. ...more
A collection of Kramer's book reviews and criticism about the NY Intellectuals. The review of Lillian Hellman was hilarious; his piece on Mary McCarthy semi-accurate; his memoir about Josephine Herbst touching. A decent read, though I skimmed through reviews of people who I was not familiar with. My overall impression was that Kramer was never as famous as the people he was writing about, so his criticism is unnecessarily snarky and unforgiving at times. ...more
Mar 27, 2012
Karyn
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Hilton Kramer died today. He led the charge against both Philistines and nihilists in the art world and culture in general. His NYT and New Criterion pieces are wonderful.
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