{"product_id":"atrocities-of-the-mind-dwight-macdonald-9780226847993","title":"Atrocities of the Mind: Essays on Violence and Politics in the American Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis collection features Dwight Macdonald's prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of collective guilt make sense in assessing responsibility for genocide? Has modern mechanized society forever destroyed the possibility of peaceful resistance through art and civil disobedience? \u003ci\u003eAtrocities of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e presents anew Dwight Macdonald, one of America's foremost literary journalists and political activists, grappling with the hard questions of his time--and ours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this collection, Macdonald writes about major events--the Holocaust, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Gandhi's assassination, the Vietnam War, and social phenomena such as mass shootings, campus protests, and police brutality--with clear-sighted and buoyant prose. He writes incisively about the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski. Macdonald praises Dorothy Day's pacifism, passes around an antiwar petition in the Rose Garden of the White House, and spurs the Johnson administration's War on Poverty with \"Our Invisible Poor.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Norman Mailer memorably called Macdonald \"a man with whom one might seldom agree but could never disrespect because he always told the truth as he saw the truth--a man therefore of the most incorruptible integrity.\" In an America today that is reeling from political violence, Macdonald's truth-telling reminds us how we got here and who we might still become.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dwight MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226847993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226847993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Dwight MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47760758341887,"sku":"9780226847993","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48824d6e-fbc8-43ec-a812-a7e8acca2f21.jpg?v=1765514181","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/atrocities-of-the-mind-dwight-macdonald-9780226847993","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}