For a generation, Alan M. Wald'sThe New York Intellectualshas stood as the authoritative account of an often misund
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Table of contents :
Introduction: Political amnesia – Part I. Origins of the anti-Stalinist left – Jewish internationalists – Dissident communists – Radical modernists – Part II. Revolutionary intellectuals – Philosophers and revolutionists – The Moscow trials – Cannonites and Shachtmanites – The second imperialist war – The New York intellectuals in fiction – Part III. The great retreat – Apostates and true believers – The cul-de-sac of social democracy – The bitter fruits of anticommunism – Epilogue: Marxism and intellectuals in the United States.