Description

In this book Alfred Kazin who for more than thirty years has been one of the central figures of Americas intellectual life takes us into his own life and times His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told an inside look at New Yorks innermost intellectual circles strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important writers of the century and brilliantly astute observations of the literary accomplishments atmosphere and fads of the 1940s 50s and 60s in the context of Americas shifting political gales