Volume 25, Number 19 · December 7, 1978
Ragged Individualist
By Irving Howe
The Last Romantic: A Life of Max Eastman
by William L. O'Neill
Oxford University Press, 339 pp., $14.95
The main thing wrong with The Last Romantic is that Mr. O'Neill can't tell a story. Here is his opening sentence: 'Max Eastman was not Jewish, despite his name, Jewish first wife, radical enthusiasms, and graduate training at Columbia University.' An array of tonal, historical, and moral gaucheries marches forth, clause by clause: no, it's not the equal of 'Call me Ishmael.'
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