Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals (Paperback)

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Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the Partisan Review writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling. It is the women who steal the show with their their groundbreaking work, their harrowing experiences of marriage, abuse, and betrayal, their passion for writing and disdain for feminism, their struggles and achievements.

About the Author


David Laskin is a cultural historian and the author of A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence and Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780226468938
ISBN-10: 0226468933
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: April 10th, 2001
Pages: 328
Language: English