The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition by Wald, Alan M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments A Note on the Text and the Illustrations Introduction. Political Amnesia Part I. Origins of the Anti-Stalinist Left

Chapter 1. Jewish Internationalists

The Non-Jewish Jews Portrait: Elliot Cohen Portrait: Lionel Trilling Portrait: Herbert Solow From Cultural Pluralism to Revolutionary Internationalism

Chapter 2. Dissident Communists

Chapter 3. Radical Modernists

In Defense of Literature Other Dissident Writers and Critics on the Left: James T. Farrell, F. W. Dupee, Edmund Wilson The Appeal of Trotskyism

Part II. Revolutionary Intellectuals

Chapter 4. Philosophers and Revolutionists

The Non-Partisan Labor Defense Committee (NPLD) and the American Workers Party Party Factionalism and the “French Turn” The Eastman Heresies Marxism and Pragmatism

Chapter 5. The Moscow Trials

The American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky The Hearings in Mexico Marxist Cultural Renaissance The Ambiguities of Anti-Stalinism Twilight of the Thirties

Chapter 6. Cannonites and Shachtmanites

Party Leaders and Party Politics Portrait: James P. Cannon Portrait: Max Shachtman James Burnham: From Neo-Thomism to Trotskyism Schism

Chapter 7. The Second Imperialist War

The Enigma of World War II Dwight Macdonald: From Trotskyism to Anarcho-Pacifism Meyer Schapiro: Socialist Internationalist The Politics of Literary Criticism

Chapter 8. The New York Intellectuals in Fiction

Literature and Ideology From Acquiescence to Antiradicalism Politics and the Novel A Revolutionary Novelist in Crisis

Part III. The Great Retreat

Chapter 9. Apostates and True Believers

“Red Fascism” The Psychology of Apostasy The Iron Cage of Orthodoxy

Chapter 10. The Cul-de-Sac of Social Democracy

Portrait: Irving Howe The “Socialist Wing of the West” Portrait: Harvey Swados The Ambiguous Legacy

Chapter 11. The Bitter Fruits of Anticommunism

Cold War II Portrait: Irving Kristol Portraits: Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter The Ideologists of Antiradicalism

Epilogue. Marxism and Intellectuals in the United States Notes Index