LEADER 03500nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910789567603321 005 20230725031416.0 010 $a1-283-11436-4 010 $a9786613114365 010 $a0-300-17165-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300171655 035 $a(CKB)2670000000092724 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050169 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000520832 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11372109 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000520832 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10516852 035 $a(PQKB)11131144 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420690 035 $a(DE-B1597)485889 035 $a(OCoLC)727948447 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300171655 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420690 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10471889 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL311436 035 $a(OCoLC)923596061 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000092724 100 $a20101025d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlfred Kazin's journals$b[electronic resource] /$fselected and edited by Richard M. Cook 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$d2011 215 $axxiii, 598 p. $cill., facsims 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-14203-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aStarting out: 1933-1942 -- The break: 1942-1945 -- A new time: 1945-1950 -- The fifties: 1951-1957 -- Return to the city: 1958-1963 -- The sixties: 1963-1969 -- New York Jew: 1970-1977 -- Love and politics: 1977-1984 -- Last years: 1985-1998. 330 $aAt the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known is that Kazin had been contributing almost daily to an extensive private journal, which arguably contains some of his best writing. These journals collectively tell the story of his journey from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood to his position as a dominant figure in twentieth-century cultural life. To Kazin, the daily entry was a psychological and spiritual act. To read through these entries is to reexperience history as a series of daily discoveries by an alert, adventurous, if often mercurial intelligence. It is also to encounter an array of interesting and notable personalities. Sketches of friends, mistresses, family figures, and other intellectuals are woven in with commentary on Kazin's childhood, early religious interests, problems with parents, bouts of loneliness, dealings with publishers, and thoughts on the Holocaust. The journals also highlight his engagement with the political and cultural debates of the decades through which he lived. He wrestles with communism, cultural nationalism, liberalism, existentialism, Israel, modernism, and much more.Judiciously selected and edited by acclaimed Kazin biographer Richard Cook, this collection provides the public with access to these previously unavailable writings and, in doing so, offers a fascinating social, historical, literary, and cultural record. 606 $aCritics$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aCritics 676 $a809 676 $aB 700 $aKazin$b Alfred$f1915-1998.$0275766 701 $aCook$b Richard M.$f1941-$01475846 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789567603321 996 $aAlfred Kazin's journals$93690181 997 $aUNINA