Oral history interview with Jason Epstein, 1995

Biographical Note

Publisher

Scope and Contents

Columbia University 1940s, literary studies, Mark Van Doren, literary modernism, intellectual life of students; Editor, Anchor Books 1951, Doubleday 1951-1958, Random House 1951-; Anchor Books, authors, market; New York City intellectual milieu 1950-, Partisan Review; introduction to cultural politics; New York intellectuals, personalities, politics, Jewish identity, social life, anti-Communism; Congress for Cultural Freedom, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); decline of New York intellectuals, role of CIA, Vietnam, 1969 New York Teachers Strike; New York Review of Books, founding of, authors, articles, finances, standards of; New Left; responsibility of intellectuals

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Epstein, Jason--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman