Michael Wreszin, the biographer of Dwight Macdonald (1906- 1982), has brought together this representative selection of interviews with Macdonald, one of the most acute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the twentieth century. A so-called -New York Intellectual, - he edited Partisan Review for seven years. Many still consider Macdonald's consistently provocative journal Politics to be the best independent journal of opinion ever published in America.
These interviews, including one conducted by Diana Trilling, span the...
Biography -- American Politics
Michael Wreszin, the biographer of Dwight Macdonald (1906- 1982), has brought together this representative selection...
Thirty years since it was first published, Macdonald's masterful book on the Ford Foundation remains the only book-length account of this institution that has been published. Despite the calls for a book carrying on the story from 1956 on the part of Richard Magat and McGeorge Bundy, that book has yet to be written. In his stimulating introduction to this new edition, Francis Sutton suggests why this is so. The Foundation, he observes, has never again aroused as much public interest as it did in the years Macdonald's describes. The announcement that a new program would be launched with the...
Thirty years since it was first published, Macdonald's masterful book on the Ford Foundation remains the only book-length account of this institution ...
