num_pages: 328
description: Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the Partisan Review Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling. It is the women who steal the show with their their groundbreaking work, their harrowing experiences of marriage, abuse, and betrayal, their passion for writing and disdain for feminism, their struggles and achievements.
language: English
title: Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
titlecomplete: Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 35
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: University of Chicago Press