Summary
An original anthology exploring the tradition of the political essay. This collection includes works by Hannah Arendt, Martin Luther King Jr., Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and Mary McCarthy, edited by the brilliant David Bromwich.
David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics and the author of a magisterial intellectual biography of Edm…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681374628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681374625 |
| Author: | David Bromwich |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 21 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
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“Penetrating essays across three centuries consider freedom, power, and justice… . Overall, the sophistication of language and argument throughout this anthology testifies to what public discourse used to sound like before it became dominated by Twitter rants. Well-chosen, enduringly relevant selections.” —Kirkus Reviews
“David Bromwich has chosen essays in which famed dissenters, critics, and reformers courageously address their fellow citizens, reframing a shared world and its political demands. They offer an unparalleled education in how to think and act politically.” —Karuna Mantena
“David Bromwich—one of the few great public intellectuals in our time—has given us a feast of wise and courageous essays by exemplary writers of the highest order! His elegant and eloquent introduction sets the stage for a caravan of profound reflections so timely for our historical moment of escalating moral decay, political corruption and massive arbitrary power.” —Cornel West
About The Author
David Bromwich
David Bromwich is the Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of several books, most recently, Moral Imagination- Essays and American Breakdown- The Trump Years and How They Befell Us. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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