Partisans

The writers associated with the Partisan Review, including Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Diana and Lionel Trilling, and Hannah Arendt, were among the most brilliant – and contentious – intellectuals in American history. In this dazzling, sharply opinionated book, Laskin delves into the intersection between the private lives, politics and literary creations of this intense circle. Winner of the Washington State Book Award, Partisans brings to life an era when writers lived lives of passionate often self-destructive intensity.