The New York intellectuals : the rise and decline of the anti-Stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s

In contrast to other scholars who emphasize the affinity of the "New York Intellectuals" for literary modernism and its largely Jewish composition as its defining characteristics, Wald finds these traits to be secondary to the group's agonizing efforts in the 1930s and after to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement. Wald presents an absorbing account of this misunderstood chapter in the history of literary radicalism and the Marxist intellectual tradition in the United States. Wald wirtes of the group's efforts in the 1930s to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement and the aftermath of that in the post war intellectual world. Looks At The Trotskyism Movement In The U.s., Explains Why Many Radicals Fell Out With Stalin, And Discusses The Impact On New York Intellectuals Of The Postwar Period