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The Rise of the New York Intellectuals
Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934—1945
Terry A. Cooney

History of American Thought and Culture
Paul Boyer, Series Editor

Terry A. Cooney traces the evolution of the Partisan Review—often considered to be the most influential little magazine ever published in America—during its formative years, giving a lucid and dispassionate view of the magazine and its luminaries who played a leading role in shaping the public discourse of American intellectuals. Included are Lionel Trilling, Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Dwight Macdonald, F. W. Dupee, Mary McCarthy, Sidney Hook, Harold Rosenberg, Delmore Schwartz, among others.

Terry A. Cooney, author of Balancing Acts: American Thought and Culture in the 1930s, is academic vice president of the University of Puget Sound.

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cover of Cooney's book features lineart photo of an old typewritter

First paperback edition

September 2004 LC: 86-040049 HX
362 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-10714-0 Paper $24.95 s



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