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"There have been many other notable and worthy books about the influential New York Jewish intellectuals. . . . But none have been as attentive as Grinberg to how their experiences as Jews shaped their understandings of masculinity, or of how that understanding was central to the form and substance of their work. . . . Measured and nuanced. . . . It is a breath of fresh literary air to read a book that takes historically significant intellectuals seriously not only as writers and thinkers, but also as people trying to figure out who they were."---Emily Tamkin, Washington Post
"There have been many other notable and worthy books about the influential New York Jewish intellectuals. . . . But none have been as attentive as Grinberg to how their experiences as Jews shaped their understandings of masculinity, or of how that understanding was central to the form and substance of their work. . . . Measured and nuanced. . . . It is a breath of fresh literary air to read a book that takes historically significant intellectuals seriously not only as writers and thinkers, but also as people trying to figure out who they were."---Emily Tamkin, Washington Post
"Ms. Grinberg’s insightful survey persuasively shows that some of the country’s most brilliant midcentury writers cultivated manliness to counter what they saw as their fathers’ meek marginality and thereby forged new ways of being American and of being Jewish.”—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal"---Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal
"A sophisticated exploration. . . . The portraits are perceptive and the cultural and historical background highlights how New York’s mid-century intellectual scene negotiated new understandings of and relationships to gender. It’s an enlightening look at an influential literary coterie."
"Erudite. . . . Write Like a Man can be read as a case study for how gen der inter acts with intel lec tu al projects."---Brian Hillman, Jewish Book Council
Ronnie A. Grinberg is assistant professor of history and a core faculty member of the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma.
"There have been many other notable and worthy books about the influential New York Jewish intellectuals. . . . But none have been as attentive as Grinberg to how their experiences as Jews shaped their understandings of masculinity, or of how that understanding was central to the form and substance of their work. . . . Measured and nuanced. . . . It is a breath of fresh literary air to read a book that takes historically significant intellectuals seriously not only as writers and thinkers, but also as people trying to figure out who they were."---Emily Tamkin, Washington Post
"Ms. Grinberg’s insightful survey persuasively shows that some of the country’s most brilliant midcentury writers cultivated manliness to counter what they saw as their fathers’ meek marginality and thereby forged new ways of being American and of being Jewish.”—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal"---Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal
"A sophisticated exploration. . . . The portraits are perceptive and the cultural and historical background highlights how New York’s mid-century intellectual scene negotiated new understandings of and relationships to gender. It’s an enlightening look at an influential literary coterie."
"Erudite. . . . Write Like a Man can be read as a case study for how gen der inter acts with intel lec tu al projects."---Brian Hillman, Jewish Book Council
Ronnie A. Grinberg is assistant professor of history and a core faculty member of the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma.