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<p><P>Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates &#151; including such unexpected figures as Lincoln, William James, and Thorstein Veblen. This son of Russian Jews wrote out of the tensions of the outsider and the astute, outspoken leftist &#151; or, as he put it, "the bitter patriotism of loving what one knows." Editor Ted Solotaroff hasselected material from Kazin's three classic memoirs to accompany his critical writings. <b>Alfred Kazin's America</b> provides an ongoing example of the spiritual freedom, individualism, and democratic contentiousness that he regarded as his heritage and endeavored to pass on.</p><h3>The New Yorker</h3><p>The literary critic Alfred Kazin chose America as his subject, and his intellectual awakening is itself something of an American legend. As a young man during the Depression, in the &#8220;delicious isolation&#8221; of the New York Public Library, he immersed himself in Howells, Faulkner, and others, eventually producing &#8220;On Native Grounds,&#8221; a landmark study of American realism and modernism in

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Author

Kazin, Alfred, Solotaroff, Ted

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060512767

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.05 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14