The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin and America's Need to Blame - Rilegato

Werth, Barry

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ISBN 10: 0385494688 ISBN 13: 9780385494687

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2001

Riassunto

A provocative, unsettling look at the tragic consequences of America's "need to punish" is seen through the life of Newton Arvin, one of the nation's great literary critics, whose entire world was shattered following virulent campaigns against homosexuals in the mid-twentieth century. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione

"Barry Werth has brought to vivid life a crucial episode in the history of American repression that is little known. The 'Smith College Homosexual Scandal of 1960,' centrally involving the famed literary critic Newton Arvin, has never before been researched and reported in such fascinating, horrifying detail. Barry Werth has a marvelous narrative gift and he tells his tale with spellbinding skill."
-- Martin Duberman

L'autore

Barry Werth brought the story of Newton Arvin and the "Smith College Homosexual Scandal of 1960" to national attention for the first time in almost forty years in The New Yorker. Werth is the author of The Billion-Dollar Molecule and Damages. In addition to The New Yorker, his articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, and Outside. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385494688
• ISBN 13: 9780385494687
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 325