LEADER 04219nam 22006854a 450 001 9910455162503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08856-4 010 $a9786612088568 010 $a0-300-14504-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300145045 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764776 035 $a(OCoLC)608649879 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10315695 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100983 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108829 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100983 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10041871 035 $a(PQKB)11176685 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420434 035 $a(DE-B1597)484957 035 $a(OCoLC)1024051653 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300145045 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420434 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315695 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208856 035 $a(OCoLC)923593553 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764776 100 $a20070515d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlfred Kazin$b[electronic resource] $ea biography /$fRichard M. Cook 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (463 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11505-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [413]-439) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Brownsville -- $tCHAPTER TWO. The Thirties: Starting Out -- $tCHAPTER THREE. The Thirties: On Native Grounds -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. The Break 1942-1945 -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. After the Apocalypse 1945-1950 -- $tCHAPTER SIX. A Walker in the City -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN. Living in the Fifties 1951-1958 -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT. The Writer in the World: Part 1 1958-1963 -- $tCHAPTER NINE. The Writer in the World: Part 2 1963-1970 -- $tCHAPTER TEN. New York Jew 1970-1978 -- $tCHAPTER ELEVEN. A New Life 1978-1984 -- $tCHAPTER TWELVE. Politics -- $tCHAPTER THIRTEEN. ''The End of Things'' 1984-1998 -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aBorn in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America's last great men of letters. Biographer Richard M. Cook provides a portrait of Kazin in his public roles and in his frequently unhappy private life. Drawing on the personal journals Kazin kept for over 60 years, private correspondence, and numerous conversations with Kazin, he uncovers the full story of the lonely, stuttering boy from Jewish Brownsville who became a pioneering critic and influential cultural commentator. Upon the appearance of On Native Grounds in 1942, Kazin was dubbed "the boy wonder of American criticism." Numerous publications followed, including A Walker in the City and two other memoirs, books of criticism, as well as a stream of essays and reviews that ceased only with his death in 1998. Cook tells of Kazin's childhood, his troubled marriages, and his relations with such figures as Lionel Trilling, Saul Bellow, Malcolm Cowley, Arthur Schlesinger, Hannah Arendt, and Daniel Bell. He illuminates Kazin's thinking on political-cultural issues and the recurring way in which his subject's personal life shaped his career as a public intellectual. Particular attention is paid to Kazin's sense of himself as a Jewish-American "loner" whose inner estrangements gave him insight into the divisions at the heart of modern culture. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aCriticism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCritics$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory 615 0$aCritics 676 $a809 676 $aB 700 $aCook$b Richard M.$f1941-$01043448 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455162503321 996 $aAlfred Kazin$92486015 997 $aUNINA