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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Mendelson, Edward.     Subjects     American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mendelson, Edward.       by title:      Moral agents : eight...       by call number:      810.9005 M537m     Search the Web     Mendelson, Edward.     American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Moral agents : eight twentieth-century American writers / Edward Mendelson. by Mendelson, Edward. New York Review Books, c2015. Call #: 810.9005 M537m Subjects American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.   Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781590177761 (hc.) Alternate title:  Eight twentieth-century American writers Twentieth-century American writers Description:  xviii, 203 pages ; 22 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (page 203). Contents:  Preface -- Introduction -- Sage: Lionel Trilling -- Moralist: Dwight Macdonald -- Outsider: Alfred Kazin -- Magus: William Maxwell -- Patriarch: Saul Bellow -- Mythmaker: Norman Mailer -- Neighbor: W.H. Auden -- Celebrant: Frank O'Hara. Summary:  "One of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W.H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Norman Mailer and Frank O'Hara. Drawing on newly published letters and diaries, Edward Mendelson explores the responses of these writers, very public figures all, to major historical events -- among them the rise and fall of fascism, the cold war, the struggles for civil rights and against the Vietnam War, and the sexual revolution -- and shows how intensely personal concerns, relating to childhood, religion, status, sex, and money, largely shaped their views. Mendelson's vivid portraits cut to the quick, changing our perceptions of these brilliant, complicated, often deeply troubled men while offering readers a new understanding of their contributions to American intellectual and political life"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 810.9005 M537m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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