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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
Cosmopolitan Visions
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, and Delmore
Schwartz, among others.
"An excellent book, which works at each level on which it operates. It succeeds as a straightforward narrative account of the Partisan Review in the 1930s and 1940s. The magazine’s leading voices—William Phillips, Philip Rahv, Dwight MacDonald, Lionel Trilling, and all the rest—receive their due. . . . Among the themes that engage Cooney . . . are: how they dealt with ‘modernism’ in culture and radicalism in politics, each on its own and in combination; how Jewishness played a complex and fascinating role in many of the thinkers’ lives; and, especially, how 'cosmopolitanism'" best explains what the Partisan Review was all about."—Robert Booth Fowler, Journal of American History
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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First paperback edition
September 2004
LC: 86-040049 HX
362 pp. 6 x 9
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