Oral history interview with William Phillips, circa 1988-96

Biographical Note

Writer

Scope and Contents

Youth, New York City; City College of New York 1930s; John Reed Clubs; Partisan Review, founding of, role of Philip Rahv, editorial policies of, authors published by, and modernism, role in New York intellectual life; Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), opposition to, founding of League of American Writers, popular front and popular front organizations, Waldorf Conference, intellectual influence of; Trotskyism; Anti-Communism 1930-1970; Congress for Cultural Freedom, influence of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); McCarthyism; New York intellectuals, members of, influence of, role of Jews and Jewishness, political arguments among, cosmopolitanism of, relation to New Left, lasting influence of; teaching career, New York University; relationship of intellectual life and American universities

Subjects

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

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman