{"product_id":"partisan-century-edith-kurzweil-9780231103305","title":"Partisan Century: Political Writings, from Partisan Review","description":"For more than sixty years, \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e has been the most influential literary and cultural journal in America, home to some of this century's finest writers. \u003ci\u003eA Partisan Century\u003c\/i\u003e now collects the journal's greatest political essays from the 1930s to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe list of writers collected here is a virtual who's who of American and European intellectual culture in the past half century. Leon Trotsky, James T. Farrell, Irving Howe, Hannah Arendt, Norman Mailer, C. Wright Mills, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Nat Hentoff, Steven Marcus, Andrei Sakharov, and many more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Partisan Century\u003c\/i\u003e gathers together some of the journal's most outstanding moments: from George Orwell's \"London Letter,\" written when invasion by Nazi Germany seemed imminent; to Susan Sontag's 1964 essay, \"Notes on 'Camp',\" a harbinger to the age of postmodernism; to Steven Marcus's \"Soft Totalitarianism,\" part of a rousing symposium on the effects of political correctness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the subjects ranging from the Cold War tothe neoconservatives, from the war in Vietnam to revolutionaries in Romania, the writings in \u003ci\u003eA Partisan Century\u003c\/i\u003e are a barometer of the shifts in global politics in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edith Kurzweil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231103301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231103305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 6.36w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/1996 pg. 293","brand":"Edith Kurzweil","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086431498495,"sku":"9780231103305","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_382338da-b6ee-4336-b392-7b267bad76a3.jpg?v=1769094633","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/partisan-century-edith-kurzweil-9780231103305","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}