Volume 55, Number 10 · June 12, 2008

New York Everyman

By Edward Mendelson
Alfred Kazin: A Biography
by Richard M. Cook

Yale University Press, 452 pp., $35.00

In both his life and his writings Alfred Kazin was divided between two ideas of what it meant to be a Jew in America. He was committed to one idea and tempted by the other.



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