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02089aam a22003018i 4500 001 9DB90120DDB411E48328BAE0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20220910012104 008 140915s2015 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2014029155 020 $a 1590177762 020 $a 9781590177761 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 100 1 $a Mendelson, Edward, $e author. 245 10 $a Moral agents : $b eight twentieth-century American writers / $c Edward Mendelson. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2015] 300 $a 203 pages 490 0 $a New York Review Books Classics 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "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 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and history $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006084406.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826110403.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20150408010819.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9DB90120DDB411E48328BAE0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search