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The New York Intellectuals (10th Anniversary Edition)

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by Alan M Wald


  Moscow trials, 5, 12, 20, 81, 87, 101, no, 128–63 passim, 179, 244, 257, 269

  Mumford, Lewis, 131

  Muste, A. J., 62, 89, 97, 102, 106, 123, 259, 325, 326, 327

  Naison, Mark, 9

  Nation, 106, no, 132, 135, 156, 345, 346, 349, 360

  National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, 54, 56–64 passim, 68, 90, 91, 103, 104, 271

  National Organization for the American Revolution (NOAR), 304

  National Review, 12, 359

  National Sacramento Appeal Committee, 105–6

  National Student League, 53, 57, 134

  Naville, Pierre, 131, 166

  Nazism, 6, 45, 204, 211, 270

  Neoconservatism, 7, 8, 10, 293, 310, 332, 349–65 passim

  New Criterion, 360–62

  New Critics, 219, 221

  New Freeman, 135–36

  New International (organ of the Workers Party), 152, 178, 183, 199, 203, 204, 236–37, 315–16, 320, 323

  New International (organ of the Workers Party of the U.S. and the Socialist Workers Party), 17, in, 114, 116, 118, 119, 134, 147, 171, 175, 200, 202, 280, 361

  New Leader, 5, 6, 9, 155, 192, 276, 277, 287, 316, 332, 360

  New Left, 24, 257, 304, 313, 328–34, 343, 348, 356, 367, 369–70

  New Masses, 9, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 57, 61–63, 66, 77, 78, 87, 90, 97, 103, 177, 178, 222, 249

  New Militant, 105, 109

  New Politics, 295, 361, 418 (n. 75)

  New Republic, 29, 88, 89, 90, 132, 140, 156, 362

  News and Letters, 304

  New York intellectuals: characteristics, 5, 6–7; studies of, 6—11; autobiographies and biographies of, 7; integration into American culture, 8, 10–12; origin of the term, 11; and party intellectuals, 21; Jewish origins, 27–45 passim; deradicalization of, 193–225 passim, 226–63, 366–68; and the Cold War, 267–310

  New York Review of Books, 8, 212, 361, 370

  New York Student Federation Against War, 319

  Nicaragua (and the Nicaraguan Revolution), 344, 350, 357, 380

  Niebuhr, Reinhold, 210, 251

  Nin, Anäis, 135

  Nixon, Richard, 4, 8, 190, 191, 270, 352

  Non-Partisan Labor Defense, 4, 101–6, 109–10, 130

  Novack, George Edward (born Yasef Mendel Novograbelski; pseuds. John Marshall, William F. Warde), 7, 49, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 83, 102–3, 104, 106, no, 130–39 passim, 146, 153, 154, 175, 192, 253, 259; on Jewish identity, 43; biographical sketch, 304–8; “Passports to Utopia,” 305; Who’s Whooey, 305; Introduction to the Logic of Marxism, 306; Pragmatism versus Marxism, 306–7; Democracy and Revolution, 307; “A Representative Figure Dies,” 384 (n. 31)

  Novak, Michael, 421 (n. 59); The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, 363

  Oehler, Hugo, 106, 108–10, 182, 186, 325

  O’Flaherty, Thomas J., 168

  Oko, Adolph, 30

  Olsen, Tillie: Yonondio, 96

  O’Neill, Eugene, 71

  O’Neill, William L.: A Better World, 8, 9

  Orwell, George, 343, 358; 1984, 268

  Pablo, Michael. See Raptis, Michael

  Paine, Lyman, 203

  Parker, Dorothy, 66, 132

  Parrington, Vernon, 154, 279

  Partisan Review, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 74, 75–97 passim, in, 139–47 passim, 154, 161–63, 190, 199, 203, 204, 207, 237, 241, 247, 248, 269, 274, 275, 279, 288, 315–16, 319, 324, 360, 361, 370

  Pass, Joe, 57

  Pells, Richard: The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age, 8, 9

  Peretz, Martin, 362

  Perle, George (pseud. George Saunders), 303

  Permanent Revolution, Theory of, 19, 186

  Petras, James, 303

  Phillips, Edna, 17

  Phillips, William (pseud. Wallace Phelps), 7, 17–18, 20, 78–97 passim, 139–47 passim, 163, 199, 208, 272, 274, 279, 370, 387 (n. 5); A Partisan View, 16–18; “Categories for Criticism,” 77; “Class-ical Culture,” 77; biographical sketch, 77–78; “Criticism,” 78; “Three Generations,” 78

  Pitzele, Merlyn, 279–80

  Plastrik, Stanley (pseuds. Sherman Stanley, Henry Judd), 321, 322, 323

  Plekhanov, George, 120

  Pochoda, Philip, 347

  Podhoretz, Norman, 7, 12, 270, 294, 332, 333, 347, 350, 352, 354–58, 362; Making It, 354, 359; biographical sketch, 354–57; Breaking Ranks, 354–57; “The Culture of Appeasement,” 355; “J’Accuse,” 355; Why We Were in Vietnam, 355

  Politics, 208, 209, 210, 211, 215, 220, 221, 247, 269, 285, 320, 323, 350

  Popular Front, 9, 20, 39, 60, 65, 80–81, 94, 95, 97, 129, 149, 162, 193–94, 223, 249, 271, 275, 291, 351

  Pound, Ezra, 75

  Poyntz, Juliet Stuart, 149–50

  Pragmatism, 118–27, 228, 229, 230, 252

  Proletarian culture, 20, 76, 78–88 passim, 92, 119, 220, 227

  Proust, Marcel, 66, 86, 88, 96, 250

  Public Interest, 352, 353

  Putnam, Phelps, 55

  Raab, Earl (pseud. Perry), 350

  Radosh, Ronald: The Rosenberg File, 348

  Rahv, Philip (born Ivan Greenberg), 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, 18, 20, 66, 77–97 passim, 139–47 passim, 167, 199, 208, 212, 217, 229, 238, 240, 267–68, 274, 275–76, 277, 318, 324, 330, 364–65, 368–71; biographical sketch, 76–77, 369–71; “Open Letter to Young Writers,” 77; “Criticism,” 78; “A Season in Hell,” 78; “Trials of the Mind,” 162; “What Is Living and What Is Dead,” 206; “Ten Propositions and Eight Errors,” 207; literary criticism, 218–22; “Twilight of the Thirties,” 219–20; “Proletarian Literature: A Political Autopsy,” 221, 227–28; “The Culture of Experience in American Writing,” 231; “Paleface and Redskin,” 231; “The Great Outsider,” 371

  Rapp-Coudert investigation, 119

  Raptis, Michael (pseud. Michael Pablo), 307

  Rauh, Ida, 114

  Rauh, Joseph, 277

  Rauschenbusch, Walter, 55

  Reagan, Ronald, 4, 7, 8, 44, 270, 352, 353, 354, 364

  Rebel Poets group, 77

  Reed, Evelyn. See Horwit, Evelyn Reed, John, 113, 169

  Reiss, Ignace, 397 (n. 50)

  Rice, Elinor, 49, 60, 61, 102, 104, no, 259, 305; Mirror, Mirror, 408 (n. 25)

  Rivera, Diego, 18, 60, 132, 138, 144

  Rizzi, Bruno: The Bureaucratization of the World, 181

  Robeson, Paul, 311

  Robinson, E. A., 78

  Rodman, Selden, 140, 147

  Rollins, William, 80

  Rorty, James Hancock, 11, 50, 58, 59, 61, 62, 102, 103, 105, 271, 274; What Michael Said to the Census Taker, 54; “When We Dead Awaken,” 54; biographical sketch, 54–55; Children of the Sun, 55; McCarthy and the Communists, 272–73, 357

  Rorty, Mary (born Lambin), 55

  Rorty, Octavia (born Churchill), 54

  Rorty, Richard, 55

  Rorty, Richard McKay, 54

  Rorty, Winifred (born Rauschenbusch), 55

  Rosenberg, David, 222

  Rosenberg, Harold, n, 218; biographical sketch, 222; “Couch Liberalism and the Guilty Past,” 279

  Rosenberg case, 270

  Rosenfeld, Isaac, 11, 248; Passage from Home, 246, 248; “The Party,” 247–48

  Rosenthal, Henry, 33

  Roskolenko, Harry (born Roskolenkier; pseud. Ross), 7, 146; biographical sketch, 180–81

  Rosmer, Alfred, 285

  Rossi, Peter, 212, 282

  Roth, Henry, 97, 132; Call It Sleep, 96

  Rovere, Richard, 273

  Rubens case, 149

  Ruehle, Otto, 136, 138

  Rukeyser, Muriel, 97, 141

  Russell, Bertrand, 342

  Russian Revolution, 6, 19, 23, 24, 143, 157, 163, 169, 281, 371, 374

  Rustin, Bayard, 328

  Ruthenberg, Charles, 170

  Sacco and Vanzetti case, 46, 55, 88, 138, 170

  Sacks, I. Milton, 312

  Sagarin, Edward, 286

  St. John, Vincent, 169
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  Salemme, Attilio, 169

  Sandburg, Carl, 78

  Sampson, Geoffrey: “Censoring 20th Century Culture,” 362

  Sanes, Irving, 341

  Schank, Richard, 303

  Schapiro, Fanny (born Adelman), 213

  Schapiro, Lillian (born Milgram), 213

  Schapiro, Meyer (pseud. David Merian), 11, 38, 49, 53, 54, 59, 61, 62, 153, 175, 192, 194, 210, 222, 226, 249, 259, 285, 287, 324, 368, 406 (n. 69), 418 (n. 75); biographical sketch, 212–17; “The Romanesque Sculpture of Mosaic,” 213–14; “The Social Bases of Art,” 215; “The Nerve of Sidney Hook,” 215–16; “Art and the State,” 217

  Schapiro, Nathan Menachem, 212–13

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 274; The Vital Center, 8

  Schneider, Abraham, 104

  Schneider, Helen, 58

  Schneider, Isidor, 46, 58, 63, 86; The Judas Time, 68

  Schoenman, Ralph, 342, 418 (n. 75)

  Schrumpter, Joseph, 22

  Schwartz, Delmore, 7, 96, 214, 221, 364; biographical sketch, 209–10; “Far Rockaway,” 230

  Scottsboro case, 49, 57, 60, 61

  Seaver, Edwin, 46, 66

  Selznick, Philip (born Schachter; pseud. Sherman), 185, 312; biographical sketch, 282–83; The Organizational Weapon, 283

  Serge, Victor, 131

  Shachtman, Max, 21, 53, 60, 102–12 passim, 123, 130, 152, 164–92 passim, 203, 246, 253, 255, 277, 295, 304, 306, 308, 313, 317, 321, 327, 328, 332, 340, 350; biographical sketch, 172–75, 190–92; Behind the Moscow Trial, 175; “Intellectuals in Retreat,” 183, 280–81; view of World War II, 199; “Under the Banner of Marxism,” 283–84

  Shanker, Albert, 191

  Sharistanian, Janet, 67

  Shermanites, 282–83, 350

  Siegel, Paul N. (pseud. Paul Shapiro), 303

  Sillen, Samuel, 87

  Sinclair, Upton, 62, 337

  Slaiman, Donald, 328, 334

  Slesinger, Tess, 33, 52, 59, 259; The Unpossessed, 39–40, 64–74, 382 (n. 37); biographical sketch, 65; “Missis Flinders,” 65; screenplay for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 65; screenplay for The Good Earth, 65; Time: The Present, 65

  Sloan, John, 55

  Slobe, Laura (pseud. Laura Gray), 302

  Smedley, Agnes, 108

  Smith Act, 195, 249, 253, 254, 274, 287

  Social democracy, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 18, 60, 61, 80, no, 125, 294, 311–43, 372

  Social Democrats U.S.A., 258, 294, 328, 399 (n. 2)

  Social fascism, 16, 17, 59, 61, 77 Socialist Appeal, 109, 146, 149, 202, 279

  Socialist Labor Party, 111, 256

  Socialist Party, 17, 50, 54, 61, 94, 106, 108, 109, no, 123, 130, 148, 165, 167, 169, 174, 181, 182, 203, 212, 215, 217, 256, 282, 312, 327, 328, 345, 350, 360, 361

  Socialist Union, 300

  Socialist Workers Party, 17, 18, 148, 166, 180–92 passim, 195, 198–99, 203, 204, 211, 216, 236, 246, 249, 253–57, 274, 278, 295–310 passim, 313, 325, 327, 399 (n. 2) Socialist Youth League, 283

  Solidarnosc (Polish Solidarity), 344, 350

  Solntstev, Eleazer, 113, 114

  Solow, Herbert Sidney (pseuds. Henry Storm, Harry Strang, Junius), 13, 17, 33, 43, 44, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65–74 passim, 102–12 passim, 123, 128–39 passim, 148–51, 154, 156, 248, 259, 274, 305, 408 (n. 25); Jewish identity, 37–38, 40–41; biographical sketch, 37–42; critic of Zionism, 41–42; “Camouflaging Zionist Realities,” 42; “The Realities of Zionism,” 42; “Program for Intellectuals,” 103–4; “Class War in Minneapolis,” 105; Union-Smashing in Sacramento, 106; “Stalin’s American Passport Mill,” 149; “Stalin’s Great American Hoax,” 149

  Solow, L. J., 37

  Sontag, Susan, 344–47, 349; Visit to Hanoi, 345

  Spanish Civil War, 62, 76, 81, 87, 101, 129, 313, 367

  Spero, Sterling, 153

  Spiro, George (pseud. Marlen), 108

  Stalin, Joseph, 6, 19, 24, 66, 73, 113, 114, 125, 128, 129, 131, 162, 179, 201, 267

  Stalinism (Soviet Communism after the 1920s), 5, 6, 10, 12, 18, 121, 151, 269–70, 296–98, 345–47, 367–68. See also Communist International, Communist Party (U.S.A.), Popular Front, “Third Period,” USSR

  Stamm, Thomas, 104, 173

  Steffens, Lincoln, 29, 57, 58, 129

  Stein, Gertrude, 75, 88

  Stein, Sol, 271–72

  Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men, 87

  Steinfels, Peter: The Neoconservatives, 8

  Stevens, Wallace, 96, 364

  Stolberg, Benjamin, 11, 135–36, 137, 148; biographical sketch, 135

  Strachey, John, 78

  Surrealism, 79, 144

  Swados, Aaron, 334

  Swados, Bette (born Beller), 335

  Swados, Felice, 334, 335; House of Fury, 334

  Swados, Harvey (pseud. Dancers), 372, 418 (n. 75); Celebration, 261, 342–43; “The Amateurs,” 334; biographical sketch, 334–343; Out Went the Candle, 335; On the Line, 335–39; False Coin, 339; Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn, 339; A Radical’s America, 339; A Story for Teddy and Others, 339; The Will, 339; “The Myth of the Happy Worker,” 340; “Why Resign from the Human Race?,” 340; Standing Fast, 340–42

  Swados, Rebecca (born Bluestone), 334

  Sweezy, Paul, 132, 328

  Symposium, 48, 86, 87, 140, 176, 178, 200, 222

  Tampa Committee, 109

  Tarcov, Oscar: Bravo My Monster, 246

  Theatre Union, 151

  Third International. See Communist International

  “Third Period,” 17, 80, 95, 249

  Thomas, Norman, 16, 109, 123, 195–96, 212, 217, 256, 259, 277, 283, 326

  Thompson, Dorothy, 135

  Timerman, Jacobo: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, 353

  Timpanaro, Sebastiano, 125

  Totalitarianism, 268–70, 348

  Trachtenberg, Alexander, 49, 174, 511

  Tresca, Carlo, 104; assassination of, 150–51

  Trilling, David, 35

  Trilling, Diana (born Rubin), 7, 15, 16, 49, 57, 59, 61, 63, 102, 103, 259, 262, 274, 305, 357–58; “Lionel Trilling, A Jew at Columbia,” 231–32

  Trilling, Fanny (born Cohen), 35

  Trilling, Lionel Mordecai, 7, 11, 15, 16, 32, 33, 38, 43, 49, 57, 59, 61, 63, 64, 65, 68, 72, 102, 112, 214, 218, 227, 229, 267, 273, 274, 305, 332, 355, 356, 357–58, 368; Matthew Arnold, 11, 35; biographical sketch, 33–37; and Jewish identity, 33–37, 381 (n. 31); “Impediments,” 35; “Chapter for a Fashionable Jewish Novel,” 35–36; “Notes on a Departure,” 36–37; The Middle of the Journey, 227, 239, 243–45, 248, 252; The Liberal Imagination, 228, 238; The Experience of Literature, 228–29; “Of This Time, Of That Place,” 231–34, 237, 239; Trilling’s fiction, 231–49; “The Other Margaret,” 234–39

  Trotsky, Leon, 1, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 50, 53, 57, 66, 74, 91–97 passim, 112–15 passim, 127–47 passim, 151, 159, 162, 163, 166, 175, 177, 179, 188, 192, 209, 215, 226, 248, 260, 296, 301, 325, 367–68, 370, 371, 374, 400 (n. 10); The Revolution Betrayed, 19, 187; The Real Situation in Russia, 53; Literature and Revolution, 73, 83, 92, 142, 220; The History of the Russian Revolution, 87, 134, 135, 176, 292; Problems of Everyday Life, 92; The Case of Leon Trotsky, 139; “Art and Politics in Our Epoch,” 143–45; Trotsky’s view of Partisan Review, 143–47; “Manifesto toward a Free Revolutionary Art,” 145–46; “Their Morals and Ours,” 147; assassination of, 150; “Criticism of the Draft Program of the Communist International,” 170; views on USSR, 179–80, 268; In Defense of Marxism, 187; “Lenin and Imperialist War,” 196; view of World War II, 196–97; on Kronstadt, 200–202; and literary criticism, 219–20; The New Course, 319

  Trotsky, Natalia, 304

  Trotskyism, 73, 211, 361, 367; and New York intellectuals, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 27, 52, 54, 60, 61, 62, 64, 91–97, 157, 164–92 passim; and Jewish identity, 15, 45; membership figures of U.S. Trotskyist organizations, no, 165, 300; and Partisan Review, 140–47; Trotskyist view of Soviet agents, 150. See also Communist Leagu
e of America, Fourth International, International Left Opposition, Socialist Workers Party, Workers Party of the United States

  Tumin, Melvin, 312

  Tyler, Gus, 315

  United Communist Party, 169–70

  Urbans, Hugo, 187

  USSR, 10, 19; disillusionment with, 5; Trotskyist dispute over nature of, 20, 23, 50, 165–66, 179–92, 328–29

  Van Doren, Mark: “Jewish Students I Have Known,” 38–39, 382 (n. 37)

  Van Heijenoort, Jean (pseuds. Loris, Logan, Gerland, Jean Vannier), 133, 254, 256, 285, 289

  Vanzler, Joseph (pseud. John G. Wright), 192, 201, 304, 307; biographical sketch, 300–302

  Vietnam, 24, 191, 270, 296, 327–31, 355

  Voice of America, 271, 272–73

  Vorse, Mary Heaton, 170

  Wald, Lillian, 132

  Waldorf Peace Conference, 279–80

  Walker, Adelaide (born George), 56, 57, 104, 133, 151–52, 408 (n. 25)

  Walker, Charles Rumford, 58, 64, 133, 136, 148, 151–52, 225, 408 (n. 25); biographical sketch, 55–56, 151–52; Bread and Fire, 56; Our Gods Are Not Born, 56; Steel, the Diary of a Furnace Worker, 56; American City, 151

  Walling, William English, 120

  Warde, William F. See Novack, George

  Warren, Norman, 49

  Warren, Rose, 49

  Warshow, Robert, 35, 274, 276, 324

  Weber, Max, 132

  Wechsler, James, 273, 274

  Weinstein, Allen: Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, 348

  Weinstein, James, 23

  Weir, Stan, 341

  Weisbord, Albert, 108, 180, 186

  Weiss, Neil, 316–17

  West, Nathanael, 97, 132; Miss Lonelyhearts, 95; Day of the Locust, 96

  Wheelwright, John, 146, 209

  Wheelwright, Philip, 47, 48

  White, Morton G., 107

  Whitehead, Alfred North: Science and the Modern World, 88

  Whitman, Walt, 54, 170

  Widick, B. J., 325, 341

  Wilder, Thornton, 55

  Williams, Raymond: Marxism and Literature, 339, 369

  Willingham, Calder, 303–4; End as a Man, 304

  Wills, Garry, 346

  Wilson, Edmund, 7, 55, 58, 61, 62, 68, 74, 86, 91, 96, 102, 112, 117, 194, 223–27 passim, 259, 368; I Thought of Daisy, 67–68, 88, 223; “The Men from Rumpelmayer’s,” 88; Axel’s Castle, 88–89, 225; biographical sketch, 88–90, 223–25; “An Appeal to Progressives,” 89; To the Finland Station, 89, 116, 157–61, 224, 225, 398 (n. 79); The American Jitters, 90, 225; Travels in Two Democracies, 157; The Triple Thinkers, 157; The Wound and the Bow, 223; The Cold War and the Income Tax, 224; Europe Without Baedecker, 224; Memoirs of Hecate County, 224, 239–41, 273; Patriotic Gore, 225

 

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