How American Jewish Marxists Forged a Macho Style for Public Intellectuals

A conversation with Ronnie Grinberg about her book Write Like a Man

In this biographical study of the New York Jewish intellectuals behind journals like Partisan Review, Dissent, and Commentary, Grinberg focuses on prominent post war writers and editors like Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Kristol, many of them native New Yorkers and graduates of City College....

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How American Jewish Marxists Forged a Macho Style for Public Intellectuals

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Episode 54: A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals

A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, "Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals"...

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