Henry Wallace: The Man And The Myth by Dwight MacDonald (1948 First Edition)

Description: Condition Continued: And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. I wish I could also describe the dust jacket as being in Near Fine condition, but then I'd be behaving like a politician. You can see it in the first few photos. It is clean, though the rear cover has some toning. It suffers from edge tears and losses. The front flap has very small tears off its top edge, not reaching the print. The rear flap looks very good, no tears. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. I have it in a fitted protective cover. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1948. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. First Edition (NAP, The Vanguard Press=NAP). This book is fairly rare and it was written by a highly regarded author, Dwight MacDonald, who had served as the editor of the Partisan Review from 1937 to 1943. Henry Wallace: The Man And The Myth may have been his first book. It is described as 'an elaboration of articles that were published in the magazine Politics which he edited after leaving the Partisan Review. From the front flap: 'Is Henry Wallace the sincere idealist? Is he a man of great moral courage? Is he a fighter for the Common Man and the Common Man's Century? This book pursues an objectively critical investigation into these and other related subjects. It also answers other questions such as: Why did Henry Wallace purge the New Dealers from his Department of Agriculture in 1935? What were the 'Zenda Letters' which threatened to put a Republican into the White House in 1940? Precisely what have been Wallace's relations with the Communists? The answers given herein will not please Henry Wallace's admirers, but they will enlighten citizens who are called upon to support his candidacy for the White House. This is the first full and frank examination of Mr. Wallace as a public figure. It is all the more impressive in that the criticism directed at the Iowa politician comes not from the Right but from the independent Left, which Mr. Wallace claims as his own.'As editor of the Partisan Review and later as publisher and editor of Politics, Dwight MacDonald 'fostered intellectuals (academic and public), such as Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Bruno Bettelheim, and C. Wright Mills. Besides his editorial work, he was also a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine from 1952 to 1962, and was the movie critic for Esquire magazine. In the 1960s, the quality of his movie-review work for Esquire won him a job as the movie reviewer for The Today Show.Macdonald published essays and reviews in The New Yorker and in The New York Review of Books. His most consequential book review for The New Yorker was 'Our Invisible Poor' (1963), about The Other America (1962) by Michael Harrington, a social-history book that reported and documented the socio-economic inequality and racism experienced by 25% of the U.S. population. The social historian Maurice Isserman said that the War on Poverty (1964) policies grew out of the Johnson administration's analysis of Harrington's report, the awareness of which came originally by way of Macdonald's book-review essay.'

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