Russian Crossroads: Toward the New Millennium. Primakov 9780300097924 New<|

Name: Russian Crossroads: Toward the New Millennium. Primakov 9780300097924 New<|
Brand: Yale University Press

Yale University Press

Russian Crossroads: Toward the New Millennium [Hardcover] Primakov, Yevgeny\n\nProduct Overview\nBorn in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section\nof Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure\nin twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America's last great men of\nletters. Biographer Richard M. Cook provides a portrait of Kazin in his public\nroles and in his frequently unhappy private life. Drawing on the personal\njournals Kazin kept for over 60 years, private correspondence, and numerous\nconversations with Kazin, he uncovers the full story of the lonely, stuttering\nboy from Jewish Brownsville who became a pioneering critic and influential\ncultural commentator. Upon the appearance of \""On Native Grounds\"" in 1942,\nKazin was dubbed \""the boy wonder of American criticism.\"" Numerous publications\nfollowed, including \""A Walker in the City \""and two other memoirs, books of\ncriticism, as well as a stream of essays-