Focusing on the Summer 1961 issue of Dissent, which was a multifaceted examination of New York City and its problems, this chapter shows how the image of the city in decline played a role in the unravelling of the “New York Intellectuals.” Contributors from the “Old Left” split with contributors from the “New Left” in their depictions of New York at this critical juncture. This had implications not only for ideology at a personal level for these intellectuals, but for the governing ideology around urbanism during a period of crisis.
Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution, written by Rafael Rojas