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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
The Menorah Group Moves Left
New Allies: Sidney Hook, James Rorty, Charles Rumford Walker
The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (NCDPP) and the League of Professionals
The Intellectual Disease
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
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