A Partisan century : political writings from Partisan review

444 Pages·1996·75.774 MB·English

by  Kurzweil, Edith

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Columbia University Press
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A partisan century': political writings from Partisan review / Edith
Kurzweil, editor,
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-2-51-10330-1 (cl.: alk. paper).— ISBN 0-231-10331-x (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Press and politics—United States. I. Kurzweil, Edith.
II. Partisan review (New York, N.Y. : 1936)
PN4888.P6P38 1996
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Acknowledgments i\
Introduction xiii
Edith Kurzweil
Editorial Statement (1937) 1
Ripostes (1937) 2
Second Thoughts on the USSR (1937) 6
Andre Gide
Art and Politics (1938) 12
Leon Trotsky
I he English Literary Left (1938) 20
F. \V. Dupee
A Letter to The New Republic (1939) 30
Editorial Statement
Contents
September Journal (1940) 34
Stephen Spender
Leon Trotskv (1940) 40
James T. Earrell
Ten Propositions on the War (1941) 4}
Clement Greenberg and Dwight Macdonald
London Letter (1941) 49
George Orwell
Ten Propositions and Eight Errors (1941) 59
Philip Rahv
Reply 66
Glement Greenberg and Dwight Macdonald
A Statement by the Editors (1942) 69
The “Liberal Fifth Column (1946) 69
An Editorial
A Rejoinder 82
Heinz Eulau
Paris Letter (1948) 85
Nicola Chiaromonte
The Culture Conference (1949) 92
Irving Howe
Report on the International Day Against Dictatorship and War (1949) 98
Sidney Hook
Contents
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The Berlin Congress for Cultural Freedom (1950) 108
Sidney Hook
Our Country and Our Culture (1952) 115
Editorial Statement
Norman Mailer
David Riesman
Lionel Trilling
C. Wright Mills
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
I he Sense and Nonsense of Whittaker Chambers (1952) . 137
Philip Rahv
Sartre versus Camus: A Political Quarrel (1952) 146
Nicola Chiaromonte
The Oppenheimer Case: A Reading of the Testimony (1954) 152
Diana Trilling
Communism Now (1956) 177
G. L. Arnold
Coexistence: The End of Ideology (1958) 182
Raymond Aron
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Letter from the South: Nobody Knows My Name (1959) 190
lames Baldwin
The Cold War and the West (1962) 199
Hannah Arendt
Marv McCarthy
Hans /. Morgenthau
Norman Podhoretz
The National Style and the Radical Right (1962) 220
Daniel Bell
Notes on “Camp” (1964) 232
Susan Sontag
The New Radicalism (1965) 244
Nat Hentoff
Michael Harrington
On Vietnam and the Dominican Republic (1963) 236
Editors
What’s Happening to America (1967) 257
//. Stuart Hughes
A Statement on the CIA (1967) ^59
June 6, 1968 (1968)
260
William Phillips
Contents vii
Remarks (1970) 261
W illiam Phillips
I'he Politics of Polemics (1971) 262
W illiam Phillips
America Today: An Exchange (1975) 268
Norman Bimbaum and Christopher Lasch
The Decline of the West (1975) 280
l Ians Morgenthau
While America Burns (1976) 287
William Barrett
William Phillips
The Neoconservatives (1977) 293
Amitai Etzioni
The Responsibility of Scientists (1981) 299
Andrei Sakharov
Letter from Italy (1981) 304
Edith Kurzweil
Thunder on the Left (1982) 310
Morris Dickstein
Letter from Israel (1982) 312
Shlomo Avineri
Israeli Letter (1983) 321
Robert S. Wistrich
Gratitude to Our Former Rulers (1983) 325
Vassily Aksyonov
The Polish Spring (1990) 329
Jeffrey Herf
No Third Way (1990) 340
Ralf Dahrendorf
The End of Communism? (1991) 358
Paul Hollander
Intellectuals and the Failure of Communism (1991) 366
Walter Laqueur
Soft Totalitarianism (1993) 87°
Steven Marcus
American Identities (1994) 377
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Romania’s Mystical Revolutionaries (1994) 3§8
Vladimir Tismaneanu
Index 393
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