'A stunning book. . . . Perhaps the most evocative reminiscence of a vital corner of the nineteen-thirties that we are likely to get. A beautifully written memoir in which the author's location of himself as a man, an intellectual, and a moral being is interwoven with the chronicle of an era. It is a wonderful book.'--Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times ?Men lived in the thirties, Kazin is saying, with peculiar stresses, particular faces and one or...