| Description |
1 online resource (x, 452 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Brownsville -- The thirties: starting out -- The thirties: On native grounds -- The break (1942-1945) -- After the apocalypse (1945-1950) -- A walker in the city -- Living in the fifties (1951-1958) -- The writer in the world: part 1 (1958-1963) -- The writer in the world: part 2 (1963-1970) -- New York Jew (1970-1978) -- A new life (1978-1984) -- Politics -- "The end of things" (1984-1998) |
| Summary |
Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America's last great men of letters. Biographer Ri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-439) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
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| SUBJECT |
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 fast |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Critics -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Criticism
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Critics
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Intellectual life
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Literatuurkritiek.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007019874 |
| ISBN |
9780300145045 |
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0300145047 |
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1282088564 |
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9781282088566 |
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9786612088568 |
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6612088567 |
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