Partisan Review and the Crises of War

FAIN: FT-13733-78

Terry A. Cooney
University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA 98416-5000)

To investigate the magazine, Partisan Review, the people associated with it, and the intellectual, political, and literary disputes in which they were involved during the period from 1937 to 194-3. This period includes the reappearance after a one-year hiatus of Partisan Review, formerly affiliated with the Communist Party, as a vocal anti-Stalinist journal. During these years, Partisan Review agonized over the problem of the radical's proper position relative to the developing world conflict. By 194-3, Partisan had moved to a position of support for the war effort and U.S. foreign policy, giving up some of its claim to radicalism.